Jiang says So, so there's this famous Chinese dissident, Ai Weiwei, he's his famous artist and he left for Germany like 10 years ago. Because, you know, he...
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Famous
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"So, so there's this famous Chinese dissident, Ai Weiwei, he's his famous artist and he left for Germany like 10 years ago. Because, you..."
"...like i want to be a writer i want to be famous you're probably a crappy writer okay if you're a good writer you're..."
"...but also gay talese gay talese is one of the most famous writers in america he's 94 years old and we were 25 years..."
"...years from now, no one's going to read like... Who's a famous writer? Excuse me?"
"Okay. Bruce? Thank you. I was saying there's so many famous writers. Some of the writers in America, for example, like Hemingway, right? So,..."
"...Charles advances out of France to make himself and his descendants famous. He does not carry weapons when he comes only the lance that..."
"...perfumes are rabiable sweet in this little hand is even more famous um you know can uh neptune's all the water and great neptune's..."
"...and so um so first of all um why is Dante famous why is he famous no no no no why why is he..."
"everyone a question okay can you become so famous that it takes you it takes you to heaven let's let's think about this okay..."
"...there can be true counselors and so you could be a famous true counselor"
"...that's what donna's saying here it's revolutionary right you mean as famous you want you can have a trillion dollars you can be a..."
"...he's using this as an opportunity he's thinking about well i'm famous now it's kind of a meta thing to the reader speaking of..."
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