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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, all right. So sorry, I was wrong, okay? So Dante is sort of stuck, okay? Because he knows he wants to tell Stadius,..."
Jiang reads Statius's attempt to kiss Virgil's feet as proof of ecstatic love while reading Virgil's response as embarrassment and mortification rather than reciprocal joy.
Jiang interprets Virgil's disappearance as a severe emotional inversion: Dante's ecstatic rise instantly becomes depression because the teacher is absent at the moment of fulfillment.
"Okay, all right. So sorry, I was wrong, okay? So Dante is sort of stuck, okay? Because he knows he wants to tell Stadius,..."
"...Virgil is not there Virgil has disappeared He becomes despondent His ecstasy becomes A depression Okay, that's how high he's gone And that's how..."
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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