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Read by Jiang as Achilles' soul or consciousness, a moving universe of living memories.
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shield of Achilles
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Jiang says the shield of Achilles is not static art but a moving image, almost like a movie, and therefore an image of the universe in motion.
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"It's not a picture, it's a movie, where the images are constantly appearing over and over. All right, so this is only a part..."
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"Okay, so really important, guys, okay? He's using a lot of verbs, right? Which says that this thing is in motion, right? You can..."
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"Okay, so we said that this shield of Achilles, it's actually the soul of Achilles, okay? What his consciousness is, what is inside him...."
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"...what we're gonna do is we're gonna read together the shield of Achilles, all right? So remember, Patroclus is dead, but Patroclus took Achilles'..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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