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The student says Dante's whole journey stages a paradox between the human desire for perfection and the irreducibly confused, dark, and historical path by which he seeks it.
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Dark forest
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...comedy, because we know he's lost in the middle of a dark forest at the very beginning. And he's trying to figure out, OK,..."
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"...comedy, because we know he's lost in the middle of a dark forest at the very beginning. And he's trying to figure out, OK,..."
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"But then also because this is part of his journey, he is like maybe I feel I wonder if he identifies with Dionysus or..."
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"...to do is I'm going to lure this robot into a dark forest or a cave where the robot's going to stumble and where..."
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"me right but let's pretend that i live in a dark forest and it's really hard to see in this dark forest but i've..."
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"...has his machine gun, his armor, right? He comes into this dark forest thinking, like, I'm invincible, right? And everyone's like, Jack, don't go..."
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