Jiang provocatively argues that pure self-enclosed mathematical world-building can drive people away from reality and the divine rather than closer to it.
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Madness
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Dido's arc is from proud queen to emotional collapse, including the thought of begging to become a slave girl if it keeps her near Aeneas.
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"Do you personally think maybe that's why some mathematicians go crazy? They're getting I agree. Yeah. Can you explain that? They're getting too close..."
"No, I think it's because they're too far away from God. Yeah, I think it's because they create the one reality and they've lost..."
"...complete mess. She is emotionally falling apart. She's being driven into madness. She's like, should I go and beg the Trojans to let me..."
"She's seriously considering being a slave girl if it just means being near Aeneas. And ultimately, she decides, no, my only option is to..."
"...much later, on the brink of or some way into her madness, what's done cannot be undone. Now, you can hear the difference between..."
"...punished all the more. No torture other than your own master. Madness could offer pain enough to match your wrath. But then with gentler..."
"...is difficult to judge. It is difficult to judge where Trump's madness stops and some rationale appears. So I could not, I could not..."
"...has done that, but without return to the previous pre pre madness conditions, everything will be done by this special persons. And he will..."
"...and he is a clown, but there's a method to his madness, okay?"
"...war makes people crazy you're going to see more craziness more Madness"
"...mad the American people will become much more desensitized to this Madness and eventually things become much more normalized until America finds itself in..."
"...actually the worst type of emotion, because it leads you into madness, okay? All right, so, um, can we have a reading, Ivory?"
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