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And then for the other classes, we'll just be reading the Divine Comedy line by line by line. All right? Okay? All right. So we start the Divine Comedy on Friday. All right? Very good. Do you understand? Okay. It's very hard idea to understand. Okay? But it's hard idea to understand just because, I hate to say this, but you've been brainwashed.", "word_count": 103, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0069-chunk-001", "start": 3059.4, "end": 3061.28, "text": "All right.", "word_count": 2 }, { "id": "seg-0069-chunk-002", "start": 3061.7, "end": 3064.56, "text": "So let me explain the plan for the Divine Comedy,", "word_count": 10 }, { "id": "seg-0069-chunk-003", "start": 3064.78, "end": 3067.26, "text": "which we will end the semester with.", "word_count": 7 }, { "id": "seg-0069-chunk-004", "start": 3067.42, "end": 3071.4, "text": "Okay? 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It's not something yo..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "note": "This source explicitly says the Divine Comedy will later explain why God is love, placing the claim as a bridge from Homer/Virgil to Dante.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 495.53, "end": 573.38, "time_label": "8:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay, so again, Virgil is the anti -Homer. And what I mean by that is that if Homer were Aeneas, then what Homer would emphasize is how emotionally conflicted Aeneas is, because he loves Dido. He does not want to go. 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