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Jiang says Homer remains mysterious: scholars disagree about whether Homer was one person or many, Greeks called Homer the teacher and father of their civilization, and Jiang will speculate about how one human mind built an entire universe...
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Jiang says Homer remains mysterious: scholars disagree about whether Homer was one person or many, Greeks called Homer the teacher and father of their civilization, and Jiang will speculate about how one human mind built an entire universe of real people.
He identifies himself first and foremost as a writer rather than a teacher and wants whatever he writes to stand the test of time and be read 100 years from now.
True knowledge eventually requires leaving and even destroying one's teacher as an authority in order to discover one's own self.
"...as to who Homer is. The Greeks themselves call Homer the teacher. And they consider him the father of the civilization. So we know..."
"...and foremost as a writer most people see me as a teacher but I'm first and foremost a writer and so I want to..."
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