Glossary
Jiang's preferred account of real artistic production: receiving rather than inventing.
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channeling
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "exactly i mean this is a universal truth okay it's something that i've experienced in my life where um when i write novels like..."
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Jiang says real writing is channeling rather than creation, and the better the writer, the more writing feels like possession, agony, and loss of control.
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Jiang ultimately reframes the question through poetry: a poet is a vessel for divine fire and can channel truths beyond full conscious comprehension.
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Jiang says that when he teaches Dante he is trying to harmonize with and even be guided by Dante in a way analogous to being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Homer's invocation to the Muse means he is channeling information from the gods rather than merely creating it as an isolated author.
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"exactly i mean this is a universal truth okay it's something that i've experienced in my life where um when i write novels like..."
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"...you're not actually in control okay you're being possessed you're you're channeling okay all right does it make sense you guys all right all..."
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"...what does he do he's a poet and we're poets they're channeling god right you understand this is how dante is able to write..."
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"...and um i feel as though when i teach dante i'm channeling dante i think dante is looking at us smiling at us and..."
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"...So what he's doing is not creating, what he's doing is channeling. He's drawing inspiration from the gods, okay? When he's speaking to people,..."
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"...uh that some people propose there is a way of uh channeling this and i don't know the exact uh ways of it but..."
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"...it was very missy and uh it seems like you were channeling the wrong guy i feel like right uh so yeah i basically..."
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"...figure this out okay all right so remember the poets are channeling the divine fire the holy fire okay and the poetry is meant..."
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"...enormously enlightening um in this workshop we've been talking about the channeling of um the author's mind and world and architecture um implanting it..."
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"...you anywhere but if you're like okay all he's doing is channeling the divine fire well that explains a lot more okay okay does..."
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"...only doing like you know am i if i'm not fully channeling channeling the divine here will i end up in the same situation..."
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"...are, okay? A lot of poetry is subconscious because you are channeling the divine. Does that make sense? So we can objectively, as critics,..."
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