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The gluttony terrace is staged around a fruit tree that intensifies desire precisely by denying satisfaction.
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Denial
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Jiang says Virgil's anger does not prove confession but refusal: he is enraged because he does not want to admit the charge of plagiarism.
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Aeneas's denial of marriage lets him deny the public and embodied reality of his relationship with Dido.
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Jiang says the US economy is heading toward disaster and a crash that people are refusing to face.
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"as a fir tree tapers upward from branch to branch that tree there tapered downward so as i think to ward off any climber..."
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"in a terrace of gluttony and the glutton in the terse of gluttony there's a tree with lots of fruit and the sinners just..."
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"Is it that Virgil admits that he did plagiarism by being angry at being accused of plagiarism? Well,"
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"he's angry because he doesn't want to admit it. Right. Okay. So again, this could all, this creates all these paradoxes here. And so..."
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"I'll state my case in a few words. I never dreamed I'd keep my flight a secret. Don't imagine that, nor did I once..."
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"Okay, so what he's saying is, I'm not a bridegroom. I, we didn't, we did not have a marriage pact, okay? We're not married...."
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"The economy is headed towards disaster. There's really no way around it. It's going to crash at some point and everyone's closing their eyes..."
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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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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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