Jiang affirms the felt aliveness of the Mona Lisa as the key phenomenon, even though the practical conditions of looking at the real painting are often crowded and imperfect.
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"It's like she's alive. Right. Sorry. Did you, your experience with the Mona Lisa. Can you talk about it?"
"It's really you know really hard to actually look carefully at the Mona Lisa because there are so many people just you know standing..."
"...of old ismanus and asapus at night along their banks saw crowds and clamor whenever thebans had to summon buckets such was the arching..."
"...backs while we were careful not to trample on the outstretched crowd. We did not notice him until he had addressed us with, God..."
"...us, they had come from behind but were more swift, a crowd of souls."
"...say that he pulled away from the very you know, impressive crowd of competitors that he was surrounded by, including Marlowe, including Ford at..."
"...this consulate rehearsing what he'd thrown he sadly learns all the crowd surrounds the one who won one goes in front and one tugs..."
"Around him horsemen seemed to press and crowd, above their heads on golden banners eagles were represented moving in the wind. Among that crowd..."
"...emotional journey with Dante. And because we have such a diverse crowd of people, I think everyone's journey will be different, okay? So I..."
"...shore and he moved off as he had come swiftly. The crowd that he had left along the beach seemed not to know the..."
"And just as people crowd around a messenger who bears an olive branch to hear his news, and no one hesitates to join that..."
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