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4 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-11-06, day precision Aliases: lighthouse, lighthouses, to-the-lighthouses

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To the Lighthouse

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...

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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield (2025-11-06, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield; Kill The Cult Of The Self.

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Timestamped Evidence

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...published James Joyce. In 1927, Woolf published a book called To the Lighthouse. And it's probably her most famous work."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"The Lighthouse is really about memory, about perception, about remembering. All right. But again, it's extremely self -indulgent and it's inward looking and it's..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"And in it, she's also trying to respond to Joyce. To the Lighthouse, it's very much based on Homer's Odyssey. And it's extremely well..."

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Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield

2025-11-06, day precision · alias-match

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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...

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