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One student formulates good writing as emptiness or vesselhood: the writer becomes a channel for divine content instead of merely performing technique.
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Divine channel
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Jiang rejects a purely intentionalist account of Homeric technique: Homer is not consciously analyzing Odysseus' reality-making, imagery, or diction; he is inspired and channeling God.
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"I think good writers are willing to kind of be a vessel for God's things. So, you are very empty on the inside. It's..."
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"They'll just drown in their own misery. It is impossible to read the compositions nor celebrate writers of the present day while being startled..."
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"Odysseus is trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah,..."
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