Aurelia agrees that the passage's language of desire and gladness makes it feel as if it is moving toward a climax.
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Aurelia says the Italian's overlapping sounds and the terza rima structure help the passage build toward a climax.
A student and Jiang converge on the view that the sexual language is universal because it marks getting closer to God.
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"moving towards a sexual climax i'm not sure if sexual but maybe i mean it's she's he's talking about desire right there's gladness like..."
"...terza rima also has something in there that builds to a climax just because it's like three lines a b a you know b..."
"there is something that's like moving towards something in just the"
"language and the reader is meant to understand it okay yes it represents that we're getting closer"
"to climax aka getting closer to God exactly okay the sex is meant to represent God it doesn't make sense you guys okay because..."
"........ reaching towards a sexual climax it it's a weird question but like do you think this language it's"
"...souls together okay it's almost like a sexual union a sexual climax where they've had this very long journey together they've had many adventures..."
"...the process together separately because uh before this like before this climax there's like so many mentions of uh Beatrice looking towards God like..."
"...desired her, and she was his. Okay? So this is a climax."
"...fast. Because the people involved, the Sikh societies, they're trying to climax as soon as possible. Okay? They believe that the faster I move,..."
"...course he strings together the bowl okay and this is the climax of the epic the Odyssey okay so we'll read it together all..."
"And they are going to come to a climax over the next few years."
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