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Jiang says oral stories survive by becoming more exaggerated, colorful, funny, and memorable; without that color, stories are forgotten.
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Exaggeration
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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"The king must learn humility. So, this is a hard thing to understand but it's really important for us to understand otherwise you cannot..."
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"...drunk before every examination and he scores 100. Okay? That's an exaggeration. And then over time naturally through the oral tradition the story becomes..."
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"It's exaggerated. The guy scores a touchdown every game and then even more exaggerated the guy hits a home run to help his team..."
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"humanity okay um so of course there's a bit of exaggeration in it okay but the essence is very much true he is he..."
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"...we didn't believe too much. We thought that it is some exaggeration, mystical vision. Maybe the West is not like that. And now watching,..."
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"...truth is the truth at all most times i think the exaggeration is just for political or psychological reasons so for example i mean..."
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"30 000 is i think an exaggeration um i mean the reality is that 30 000 is a very hard number to hide so..."
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"...losing all of this benign, not all of it, that's maybe exaggeration, but the benign hierarchies are in decline. While we now have the..."
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"...state. And it's not, and I don't think that that's an exaggeration."
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