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Bromwich says Dante would probably be comfortable staging the dagger as a visible object, but he emphasizes that the apparition still functions as Macbeth's own ambition masquerading as outside direction.
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Homer's bardic performance is modeled as a collective movie-like experience: the same poem is presented to everyone, but each listener has a different inner experience of it.
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Obama is Jiang’s closing example of the elite actor: promising hope and change, then dropping the promise once in power and returning to it only when electorally useful.
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Shakespeare was experienced as performance and music by ordinary audiences, not primarily as a school text.
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Oral tradition is not simple storytelling; the room, audience, light, darkness, acoustics, and communal participation change each telling and make each version unique.
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Jiang says Trump is an expert at creating false realities and manipulating perception, so outward visuals like apparent weakness with Putin should be read as performance rather than transparent truth.
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"...it's a it's a stage prop it's and it's a favorite performance piece isolated from everything else in the 19th century but yeah thank..."
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"more instance of the consistency of this portrayal that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are always putting off onto something slightly external the impulses that..."
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"into the Iliad okay but because these people are living in the universe they're still alive in the universe okay so it's impossible that..."
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"And they brought in this like. Antagonistic journalist who hates Trump into the chat. I mean, like it sounds very much mediated to me...."
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"And you don't—and like, Trump's an actor. You don't think this is all intentional? I mean, like, we're so stuck into thinking that the..."
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"Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for,..."
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"When people spoke Shakespeare, it was as though they were singing. And also, there were lots of, like, dance routines within the plays as..."
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"But if it's musical, then it's easy to remember because it becomes like a song, right? It's really easy for us to remember songs...."
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"Right? So this is the oral tradition in contrast with literary culture and visual culture. The oral tradition is extremely complex. We tend to..."
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"Some important things to know about this. First is the halls were huge. As huge as a Greek amphitheater. So you could see about..."
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"...than the IQ itself like you know on the kids academic performance than their brain powers and everything else combined um and so therefore..."
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"...but he was not an aristocrat by the standards of florence performance okay also let me ask you this question was saint francis of..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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