Glossary
The student's name for ritualized or rule-like magic where a defined act is expected to produce a defined result.
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hard magic
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in fantasy, like, in fantasy fiction, there are two types of magic. There's hard magic and there's soft magic. And hard magic is when..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in fantasy, like, in fantasy fiction, there are two types of magic. There's hard magic and there's soft magic. And hard magic is when..."
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A student proposes that Dante's magic is closer to 'soft magic' than 'hard magic,' but already hints at the ritualized expectation structures that later esoteric systems would formalize.
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"...in fantasy, like, in fantasy fiction, there are two types of magic. There's hard magic and there's soft magic. And hard magic is when..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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