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Modern prose can be factual and still less truthful because it describes behavior without revealing the spiritual-emotional force behind it.
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Modern Prose
Modern prose can be factual and still less truthful because it describes behavior without revealing the spiritual-emotional force behind it.
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diagnosis
Removing the gods from the Priam/Achilles episode makes the story less powerful, less interesting, and less truthful.
method
Jiang's own rewrite externalizes Anna's future self as a hallucinated spiritual figure, which he says gives more insight into the human psyche than flat modern narration.
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"...to do now is, I'm going to write this again in modern prose to show you the difference, okay? Okay, so this is what..."
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"...this is happening. So the Iliad is truthful, but not factual. Modern prose is factual, but not truthful. So now, as I said, Achilles..."
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"fetus to my presence so I can declare to her my solemn sound decree Achilles must receive a ransom from Queen Priam Achilles must..."
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"guilt and remorse for failing his son children spies watch Achilles drag Hector's body day and night they take turns spying and they know..."
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"now she's looking for god in affairs in sex in lust and that's why she can't find it okay all right so what i'm..."
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"anna asked where's wronski anna shouted she looked around the train station was empty okay you know where he is the older anna said..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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