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Be careful how you enter, whom you trust. The gate is..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0045" ], "note": "Jiang marks this as an interpretive reading of Virgil's motive; keep it attached to the Dido passage and the Virgil-Dante contrast.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 2561.14, "end": 2613.77, "time_label": "42:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Virgil knows, but knowing that, we can also make the assumption that Virgil pursued Dido, fell in love with Dido, and Dido rejected him, probably because he was an ugly asshole, okay? And so Virgil got really angry and..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ] }