Jiang repeats the lecture's chronology that the broken bridge dates back to Christ's descent into hell, which is why the demons redirect Dante and Virgil.
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The new narrative turn is that Virgil discovers the devils gave false directions about the bridge out of the bolgia.
The student's first answer is that Beatrice guides Dante because familiar personal love lets him bear cosmic grandeur and serves as a bridge between Dante and God.
The speaker says Trump ordered the destruction of Iran's largest bridge and characterizes targeting civilian infrastructure as a war crime, while noting possible dual-use arguments.
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"...use in going much farther on this ridge because the sixth bridge at the bottom there is smashed to bits yet if you two..."
"that can you don't keep on going because the bridge was destroyed by jesus when he came to hell there's another way i'm going..."
"...all the savage valleys, except that here it's broken, not a bridge, but where it ruins slope along the bank and heap up at..."
"...taking it all in. So, Beatrice is kind of like a bridge, a bridge of love between Dante and God."
"...targets in Iran. So Trump ordered the destruction of Iran's largest bridge, okay? All right, right here, right? You guys see that? Okay, and..."
"...who bends as if he were this semiarch that forms a bridge. And then I heard, draw near, the past is here, said in..."
"the right, when one ascends the hill, where over Rubiconte's bridge, there stands the church that dominates the well -ruled city. The daring slope..."
"...cattle uh infernal 21. canto 21. we came along from one bridge to another talking of things my comedy is not concerned to sing..."
"...front the demon gripped him by the ankles then from our bridge he called Omele bronchi I've got an elder of Saints Vita for..."
"...surfaced black with pitch but now the demons from beneath the bridge shouted the sacred face has no place here here we swim differently..."
"...in his tracts as if to beg so from beneath the bridge the demons rushed against my guide with all their prongs but he..."
"...spoke to me oh you who crouched bent low among the bridges splintered rocks you can feel safe and"
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