Jiang says Ulysses fails because he abandons the familial loves that should anchor exploration, leaving ambition as a wandering flame with no body to hold it.
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He defines faith as the heaviest thing inside a person, the inner weight that anchors one's life.
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"um earlier in in verse 94 neither my fondness for my son or pity for my old father nor the love i owed penelope..."
"...his mission to explore how did he die he has no anchor right remember how in paradise it is donnie's love for beatrice that..."
"flame back the flame just wanders about okay so again what don is saying this is like really important is that we as individuals..."
"...is the heaviest thing in you. It is the thing that anchors you. Does that make sense? So the idea of the coin isn't..."
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