For Jiang, love is not obsession or possession but intimacy: understanding another person through private language, cold words, and shared secrets.
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Secret Language
For Jiang, love is not obsession or possession but intimacy: understanding another person through private language, cold words, and shared secrets.
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The brooch is Jiang's hidden sign in the passage: to outsiders it is descriptive ornament, but to Penelope it recalls the departure promise and proves the stranger is Odysseus.
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"Does that make sense? Right now, these three different planes believe different things. There's a different narrative. And they must combine this narrative into..."
"So in other words, you're able to communicate and understand each other in an intimate language with cold words and secrets. You understand secrets,..."
"uh good woman odysseus the great master of subtlety returned how hard it is to speak after so much time apart why some 20..."
"sun itself you woman galore would gaze on it with relish and this too bear it in mind won't you i have no idea..."
"her words renewed her deep desire to weep okay meaning that her his words moved her spirit moved her heart okay now you read..."
"at the detail on the face of the work of art how things planting a double film it goes on and on and on..."
"Again, this is a secret language. This is an intimate language between Odysseus and Penelope. On the surface, it seems as though Penelope is..."
"...thinks that geometry is really the language of the universe, the secret language of the universe. Dante says, that's too hard, guys. That's not..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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