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A work that functions as a portal into the mind of God and transforms the reader through rereading.
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great book
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...portal into the mind of God okay and that's what a great book is all right okay so enjoy divine comedy it is the..."
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Glossary
A universe unto itself that lets the reader inhabit many lives and accelerate empathy, wisdom, and enlightenment.
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A work whose characters become real to the reader, make the world more real, excite imagination, and help the reader become human. In this packet, a work powerful enough to enlarge imagination, empathy, curiosity, and self-observation, with civilizational consequences.
Glossary
A book that makes a reader fully human by revealing the universe and the human condition.
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"...portal into the mind of God okay and that's what a great book is all right okay so enjoy divine comedy it is the..."
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"...to wisdom and enlightenment, right? But the great thing about a great book is it's a universe onto itself. And therefore, you can actually..."
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"...point of this exercise is to show you that what a great book does is excite your imagination. It helps your imagination peer deeply..."
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"...famous American literary critic. Okay? And his explanation for what a great book is, what is a great book? A great book is something..."
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"...We have greater curiosity. Okay? And that's the power of a great book. And this is how the Iliad created the greatest civilization on..."
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"What is a great book? What I want to show you in this class is that a great book is something that makes you..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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