Jiang says Okay, so I don't know what you're referring to, because Lee is a very common surname in China. So could you provide some background?
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...don't know what you're referring to, because Lee is a very common surname in China. So could you provide some background?"
"...a lot to you. But I'm saying like, it's actually pretty common in the world, right? Yeah, yeah."
"Yeah, I mean, like, isn't it very common that you think of a friend, right? And then your friend calls you the next day,..."
"...strange, okay? But you can Google phantom limbs. It's a very common psychological thing, okay? But the idea is this, okay? The idea is..."
"...by Macbeth. And I want to suggest it's also a fantasy common to all ambition. Ambition in that sense, in that hard sense, is..."
"...the harm to nature that their deed has done is actually common to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, but she, she thinks she can elude..."
"...but it's just obedience to ideas about the future has been common in human nature forever and shakespeare's using it"
"...well have put the knife right there. And I think it's common but not universal to have the knife be only imagined by Macbeth...."
"...right so yeah that's correct okay but but i want more common things okay so sleeping is one way and then another way is..."
"...and fail yes okay but but and what is the really common way in society that forces our self -reflection maybe walking to me..."
"...king, there is hope for you. Right? Because what's the most common thing to do? If you sin, you're like, well, I'm screwed anyway...."
"...demons are usually angry or just are disturbed. What's the most common response when Virgil says that we have a mission from heaven?"
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