Jiang says fame is what slows Dante down from reunion with God and Beatrice: instead of ascending, he stalls where he can be seen and admired.
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Belacqua's speech states that late repentance means waiting outside the gate for as long as one delayed, unless living prayers shorten the sentence.
Jiang says the gaokao was delayed by one month during COVID school closures, something he describes as unprecedented in the previous thirty years.
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"a problem now yes because it's just slowing him down yes because he's trying to get to Beatrice right you understand this is a..."
"yes okay does that make sense he thinks he virgil said you're doing this for everlasting fame and now he's like well i have..."
"voice nearby was heard to say perhaps you will have need to sit before you reach that point hearing that voice both of us..."
"was quickening my breath somewhat did not prevent my going to him and when i had reached him scarcely lifting up his head he..."
"heart that lives in grace what use are other prayers ignored by heaven and now the poet climbed ahead before me and said it's..."
"Yeah, that's a good question. Again, you know, what I what I've discovered in my research, what I've learned in tech is that it's..."
"...will are more acute in action than they were. With no delay. The soul falls of itself astonishingly on one of two shores there...."
"...seeking new sight, a thing for which they longed, did not delay in turning toward him. But I would not have you, reader, be..."
"...was which was even troublemakers zagat total right because tumultuous without delay my guide asked of that one who had his eyes still fixed..."
"...is italian and i who had my answer said already without delay began"
"...leave the true path by Photinus. It would be better to delay descent so that our senses may grow somewhat used to this foul..."
"...the proud man's continually the pangs of despised love the laws delay the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit"
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