Jiang's own reading is that the dream makes Dante anxious because Virgil is no longer just father-guide but a competitor for Beatrice.
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Competitor
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...bidding. Okay. So, so it's one of like Virgil is my competitor now. You understand that's the emotion now before it's like versus my..."
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"...bidding. Okay. So, so it's one of like Virgil is my competitor now. You understand that's the emotion now before it's like versus my..."
"want to keep Beatrice, I need to show, I am more worried than Virgil that I am more willing to do sacrifice myself for..."
"...imitate the father. And after that, he's like, oh, he's a competitor to my mom, you know, for me. So I have to kill..."
"...gives him these dreams that reveal to him Virgil is your competitor. Okay. Be wary of what he just said. Okay. Does it make..."
"...he pulled away from the very you know, impressive crowd of competitors that he was surrounded by, including Marlowe, including Ford at a later..."
"...your next step. He gives you free will, right, as the competitor on the other side of the Go game. So he knows, ultimately,..."
"...the shade his name is gaido and gaido and dante are competitors they're both poets they're trying to be the best poet in florence..."
"...to be women and then he beat up all the female competitors, so no one won the box... The female champion for boxing was..."
"...AI development why because with AI China and America are not competitors to their partners because as I told you last class the entire..."
"...and eventually wall street will go and create china as a competitor to united states um so so he's very he's very wise in..."
"...it is continuous civil war, is that America has no peer competitor in the Western Hemisphere. And as a result, all the conflicts are..."
"...Iran is able to stay intact well they can be a competitor to Pax Judaica right because Iran also has a lot of resources..."
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