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Jiang insists that zombie, robot, ship, bird, and giant are still incomplete labels, because the point of the canto is to notice the exact descriptive machinery Dante uses to strip Lucifer of personhood.
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"No, he's even worse than a zombie, actually. If you just look at it, look at the words that Donna used to describe him,..."
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"Bird? This is a simile, right? I'm saying, like, what are the words that directly..."
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"...this canto is Dante spends a lot of time in the description, right? Dante is usually very economical. He spends maybe a tercet and..."
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"...true, then the Holy Trinity will be wrong. whole bible like description of god cannot um yeah okay all right all right so so..."
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"...like just think about your life and the universe, OK, the description here describes what really solar system, solar system, yes, OK, yes, the..."
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"...genius, what makes it beautiful and divine is it's really a description of religious devotion, okay? So the greatness of this writing is to..."
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"...join our private closed community, head to the link in the description below."
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"...Bullion Standard Pro. Click on the link down below in the description box and use promo code COSM10. Now let's get back to the..."
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"...Excellent. We'll have the link to everything down below in the description box as well as the pinned comments. And be sure to like..."
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"...then I'll make sure I put it in the pin comment description for that. All right. Thank you so much for coming on. This..."
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"...a problem. For everybody involved. And here's another here's another good description or demonstration of what's going on here. So you have Hormuz Island,..."
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"...in standard pro click on the link down below in the description box and use promo code cosm10"
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