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Odysseus builds persuasive force by moving Achilles through vivid contrasts and time: feast versus desert, present Hector, past Peleus, and future victory, riches, marriage, and Greek glory.
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Jiang says a coherent character-world lets readers look backward to understand how events came into being and look forward to make predictions about future behavior.
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Jiang says a coherent character-world lets readers look backward to understand how events came into being and look forward to make predictions about future behavior.
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"...before him. Okay? And then he takes Achilles back to the past and says, remember your father, Peleus."
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"...Think about the present. Think about the present. Think about the past. Think about the future. Okay? Expand your mind, Achilles. Right? That's what..."
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"...able to look back at how this came into being, the past, and we're also able to make predictions about the future. And all..."
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"...however you want to see it, I've become very famous these past few months. And so a lot of what I say now is..."
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"...and the reason why is that they've become so rich these past few decades that the populations have blown up. And as a result,..."
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"Look at all the countries that he's named. Over the past year, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras. It's all the Western..."
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"...source of the misery that Iran has been suffering for the past few decades. And the IRGC, not only do they see America as..."
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"...prohibit people from doing that. It's not been done in the past. And like no sane person with any morality would do this. But..."
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"environmental collapse So for the past few decades we humans have been very lucky and that there have been no major ecological disasters But..."
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"...for most of its history. Today, yes, I understand for these past few decades, China has become much more globalized, has become much more..."
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"So what's happening today, these past few decades, it is an aberration. It goes against cultural norms in China, but in the long term,..."
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"...with that? Yeah, I mean, if you just look at the past couple of months, China has been much more resilient and much more..."
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