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Jiang accepts a love-based map of the terraces in which the lower sins involve too little or failed love and the upper sins involve misdirected or excessive attachment.
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The reading also distinguishes tepid pursuit of the good from profligate attachment to lesser goods, thereby distributing distorted love across both deficiency and excess.
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The read passage identifies the city's new condition as one of excess and arrogance brought by newcomers and quick gains.
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A student widens gluttony beyond food to excessive desire and indulgence in pleasures generally.
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Jiang returns to a simple working definition of gluttony as wanting too much and never stopping that wanting.
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Another student argues endless rain mirrors gluttony because it too is a more-and-more excess that never reaches satisfaction.
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"Yeah, that's also what I wanted to say. And to add on to that, I feel like for these different layers within Purgatory, it's..."
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"Exactly. You're right. Exactly. Right. So, it's structured the way it is because this, the last four, okay, it's really like misdirection of love,..."
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"Each apprehends confusedly a good in which the mind may rest and longs for it, and thus all strive to reach that good. But..."
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"...words. New comers to the city in quick gains have brought excess and arrogance to your floor, and so you weep for it already...."
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"Excess and arrogance. Also, um, excess and arrogance. These are, this is the current state of Florence, okay? Excess and arrogance. Okay, keep on..."
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"Gluttony is, the narrow sense is eating too much food or eating excessive amounts of food or lavish food, but on a wider definition,..."
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"Okay, all right, all right. So let's continue, okay? So gluttony is you want too much and you can never stop from wanting too..."
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"Be given to you as a punishment. Yes. Like endless rain."
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"...was dazzled by their faces, just like any sense bewildered by excess. Te lucis ante. And issued from his lips with such devotion and..."
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"...stood up drew his back toward the temples, and from the excess matter growing there came years upon the cheeks that had been bare...."
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"...pent. And here, because of the outrageous stench thrown up in excess by that deep abyss, we drew back till we were behind the..."
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