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To be honest, we don't really find jewelry all that interesting... We'd rather focus on-- Ooh, shiny!
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Symbols jewelry allow shmoop oh marjorie
- 00:11
kemp get rid of all of her jewelry Yeah marjorie
- 00:14
camp starts is someone whose godless i don't think we
- 00:16
even really talked about this but it's also the story
- 00:19
not just of her as a deeply religious person weeping
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- 00:22
and moaning but also someone who started out deeply religious
- 00:26
on how she can people accept christianity and find herself
- 00:29
this stereo typically really devout convert And as a result
- 00:34
quite ascetic her giving up of jewelry here is a
- 00:37
symbol of her newfound moral purity or her letting go
- 00:41
of earthly things in our three treasures But that's not
- 00:43
so interesting The kazon right know and help tyzonn is
- 00:48
interested in gathering knowledge and refers to that as treasure
- 00:52
it's a different kind of ornamentation on and it's one
- 00:55
that tow her is actually quite valuable She has something
- 00:59
that she can show off with world And that is
- 01:01
that she's smart And she knows a lot again Just
- 01:05
i think like a difference of emphasis Bazan isn't interested
- 01:07
in being an ascetic she's interested in religious experience who's
- 01:10
interested in like getting rights for women and celebrating women
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strength and kind of this motion of gathering this value
- 01:17
is part of that right where's for mercury The project
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is actually just to divest yourself of things that you
- 01:22
think are valuable And i want toe one more time
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Make a plug for veronica franco who is right in
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the middle of those two things As a court ihsan
- 01:31
you had to embrace kind of material beauty and ornamentation
- 01:36
But also someone who was quite knowledgeable unable to assert
- 01:40
herself had the other kind of ornamentation as well Yeah
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Why does marjorie kemp get rid of her jewelry What
- 01:48
does christine depose nc as her true jewelry How does
- 01:52
veronica franco view jewelry My bank account prefers dip A 00:02:00.814 --> [endTime] san's view
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