Jiang says Dante can produce these different effects by intentionally controlling syllables and the balance of hard and soft consonants.
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The object given to another person becomes, in Jiang's reading, a way for the maker to see his impact in another person's world.
Jiang defines reflection through Talese's father: solitary tailoring work models precision, exactness, discipline, patience, and the pursuit of perfection.
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"And, and you can do that by controlling the syllables, okay? Does that make sense? There are some hard syllables, and there's some, sorry,..."
"In your enjoyment or use of my product, I would have had the direct enjoyment of realizing that by my work, I had both..."
"Then I give this vase to a friend, and I see this vase at my friend's home, right? He puts flowers, and he's very..."
"I would have been for you the mediator between you and the species, and thus between—and thus been felt by you and acknowledged as..."
"Okay, so this vase now shapes your reality, and I know that this vase has given you meaning, and it has shaped your reality,..."
"And so you can say that this is exploration. Curiosity. Okay? Exploration. But in the other room, the father would by himself sit and..."
"They are very exact. They are very meticulous."
"They are very disciplined. They are very patient. So you can spend days and days in this room just working on a topic. This..."
"...these decades going to like these workshops hiring writers learning the craft but but then then nantalese is like you know um"
"...okay you know what give me that divine fire and we'll craft a weapon together well if you do that if you put the..."
"...to hear, it is taught to the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, and the master. And it is taught in every degree through which..."
"...points of the compass are beneath the square. For the fellow craft, one is above and one beneath. For the masters, both are dominant..."
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