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Jiang's term here for intense focus and devotion to a passion, prompted by the example of meeting an artistic hero.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "When I first. Met my. Jazz piano hero. For the first time. In his live show."
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Meeting a personal artistic hero is categorized by Jiang under flow, which he defines here as intense focus or devotion to one's passion.
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A student proposes that Italian's Latin-style endings make rhyme easier and give the language a smoother flow than English.
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"When I first. Met my. Jazz piano hero. For the first time. In his live show."
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"Right. So. So. There's. A concept. Flow. Right. Which is. Intense. Focus. Or. Devotion. To. Your passion. Okay. Yes. So. Flow. Yes. Yes."
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"...almost. It makes it easier to rhyme, and it makes it flow more smoothly than English, which is all broken up. It has no..."
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"...a river that no human can so maybe it's like the flow of time the flow of change and that you're so tempted to..."
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"...the true essence of love is just love, but you just flow. And if you don't love me, that's fine."
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"...power to form all of another's human limbs. As blood that flows through veins feeds one's own limbs, digested yet again, that part descends..."
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"...Consider the sun's heat that when combined with sap with that flows from vines is then made wine and when the key says lacks..."
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"...tried to ditch all them for jesus because they were hand flows okay does anyone have a celebrity that they worship or whatever what..."
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"So it's like constantly trying to ebb and flow between doing what being the viewer and being the artist, being the subject and being..."
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"...soon be dissolved by grace, so that the stream of memory flow through it limpidly. Tell me, for I shall welcome such dear words...."
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"...scornful of them, it swerves its snout away, and downward it flows on, and when that ditch ill -fated and accursed grows wider, it..."
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"...turn the wheels of a land mill, not even when its flow approached the paddles, as if my master raced down that embankment while..."
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