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The long speeches in the Iliad are long because the speakers are not merely exchanging responses; they are trying to create realities.
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Reality creation
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Jiang endorses the formula that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world by saying their words create reality.
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The prisoners are the ones with the capacity to create reality; the powers behind them must trick the prisoners into creating the reality the powers want.
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"Achilles gets in a fight with Agamemnon. He refuses to fight. And the Trojans, led by Hector, are destroying the Greeks. So, Agamemnon and..."
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"They're trying to create their own reality. Okay? So with speech, what you're really trying to do is you're trying to project a movie..."
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"Odysseus is trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah,..."
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"Okay. You don't really understand what's going on. Okay. All right. Let me explain again. Okay. You think you know. Okay. But you don't..."
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"...Okay? Another example is the idea of movies. Right? Movies are reality creation machines. When you go see a movie, if it's a really..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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