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The student example Jiang accepts makes the Mona Lisa a co-creative mirror: the changing meaning of her smile depends on the inner state the viewer brings to the encounter.
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Smile
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...song called the Mona Lisa. Yes. Where he says is your smile to tempt a lover or is it just another work of art..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...song called the Mona Lisa. Yes. Where he says is your smile to tempt a lover or is it just another work of art..."
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"...song called the Mona Lisa. Yes. Where he says is your smile to tempt a lover or is it just another work of art..."
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"It's like she's alive. Right. Sorry. Did you, your experience with the Mona Lisa. Can you talk about it?"
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"...still and yet the powerful cannot do all for tears and smiles are both so faithful to the feelings that have prompted them that..."
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"...why just now your face showed me the flashing of a smile now i am held by one side and the other one keeps..."
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"gods do not suppose my smile had any source beyond the speech you spoke of him that were the cause now he had bent..."
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"...with such care these words at first brought something of a smile to statias then he answered every word you speak to me is..."
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"...developed, okay? The baby is so developed that God can now smile upon it. And when God smiles upon it, what happens is that..."
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"...he said, the pages painted by the brush of Franco Bolognese smile more brightly. All the glory now is his, mine but apart. In..."
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"...his brief words had stirred my lips a little toward a smile then i began from this time on balakwa i didn't i need..."
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"...and help that person get up, but you don't, you just smile and run on and you take the light and that other person..."
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"...point alone defeated us when we had read how the desired smile was kissed by one who was so true a lover this one..."
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"...Strikes. The. Frailest. Eye. So. Does. The. Memory. Of. Her. Sweet. Smile. Deprived. Me. Of. The. Use. Of. My. Mind. From. That. First. Day...."
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