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Students surface candidate descriptors from the canto, including ship, bird, bat, grinder, and giant, as the class searches for the right vocabulary for Lucifer's inert monstrosity.
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BAT
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"...words. What are some other words? A bird. He says a bat and a bird. What line?"
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"...so wide. They had no feathers but were fashioned like a bat's. And he was agitating them so that three winds made their way..."
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"Yeah, his wings are like bats. But what is he? Read it carefully. What words are being used to describe... Excuse me? A grinder?..."
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"...i'm a member with this being you know you know sick bat right and keep waiting for death and at that time you know..."
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"...maybe this is another Wuhan lab thing. Maybe somebody ate a bat. Is hantavirus, is this all fearmongering? What's the deal with hantavirus?"
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"...draft again i mean they wouldn't do it right off the bat they'd have to kind of finesse it in it seems like they're..."
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"So I wanted to ask you off the bat, Professor, your predictions of essentially the U.S. strikes in Iran and the Israeli -U.S. conflict..."
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"...to punish myself on behalf of eve okay i take a bat and i hit myself or i take a whip and i hit..."
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