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Our passage has been willed above, where one can do what he has willed and ask no more." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2269.984, "end": 2344.53, "time_label": "37:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Which is to say, don't trust the person closest to you. Be careful how you enter and whom you trust. Okay? And what confirms this is, to which my guide replied, but why protest? Okay? 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It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot of these conflicts. So he wrote La Commedia in order to have people access God. For the comedy..." } ] }, { "term": "limbo", "usages": [ "The place Virgil claims virtuous non-Christians are trapped, a claim Jiang says Dante will later undermine." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0031" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1891.13, "end": 1967.73, "time_label": "31:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And this is a really important idea if you are trying to understand Dante. Free will is a fundamental truth of the universe. You do what you do because you choose to do it. 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So what he's saying here is that Virgil is naming all the shades and Donna is like, let me go and talk to them. And Virgil says, sure, go talk to them, okay? But what I want you to notice is this. Those spirits, l..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0047", "segment_id": "seg-0047", "start": 2733.04, "end": 2796.5, "time_label": "45:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? So I know who Dido is, I know what Virgil did, and I want to name her in order to resurrect her in our memory. All right? So again, this is creating kind of dissonance. 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So Minos, who's basically deciding which level of hell you go to based on your sin, he basically says to Dante, Don't trust anyone h..." } ] }, { "term": "poetry as virus", "usages": [ "Jiang's model of poetry as memorized language that infiltrates, subverts, and remakes the reader over time." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0006" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 369.32, "end": 441.92, "time_label": "6:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And it's structured like a solar system. Okay? So that's the very structure of the Divine Comedy. And as you can see, it's very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's mathematical. There's a symmetry to the La Commedia. It d..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 441.92, "end": 516.86, "time_label": "7:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "you interact with it, the more it enters you and it creates cognitive dissonance, meaning that it is disrupting the normal way you see the world. It creates paradox. And what's going to happen is that your mind is going..." } ] }, { "term": "reciprocity", "usages": [ "A conditional exchange model Jiang opposes to divine free will and generosity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0017", "segment_id": "seg-0017", "start": 1110.52, "end": 1188.74, "time_label": "18:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay, so a lot of La Commedia, Divine Comedy, is dialogue, okay? 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