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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-26, day precision Aliases: wive

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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...

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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Tree, The Guide, And The Chosen Fire (2026-06-26, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The Tree, The Guide, And The Chosen Fire; Question Peter, Leave Beatrice, Defeat Virgil; Paradise As A School For Imagination And Will.

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Jiang explains Yamnaya violence through the incentives of young men without wives or wealth: they seek to steal other people's wives and property.

Timestamped Evidence

Love Is The Secret Language

2026-03-11, day precision · Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love

Transcript

"...to trick us into revealing ourselves by calling names of our wives in their voices. And it was only Odysseus who saved us because..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Tree, The Guide, And The Chosen Fire

2026-06-26, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...

The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul

2026-01-28, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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...

The Dating Game That Eats Civilization

2026-01-06, day precision · alias-match

Reading

Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.

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