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Jiang endorses the class reading that Virgil treats his historical timing as a mask that lets him avoid admitting moral failure.
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Excuse
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Because it's basically his mask or excuse of not making it to heaven. He's like, oh, they kind of excluded me because I was..."
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Jiang rejects the idea that creativity itself excuses Virgil, saying conscious misuse of the gift makes his betrayal worse, not better.
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"Because it's basically his mask or excuse of not making it to heaven. He's like, oh, they kind of excluded me because I was..."
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"Exactly. So he's constantly excusing himself, right? He'd rather, again, burn in hell than just to admit he's wrong. Riffius is interesting because who..."
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"okay yes virgil is still using imagination truth beauty and poetry so it's still god's gift so because he's using that he's not going..."
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"and you you behave like and you behave like virgil does that's one thing but like to know that you're behaving the wrong way..."
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"...you go i'm actually having because it's hard to graduate right excuse me but eventually but as long as you maintain your conviction right..."
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"...forgiveness. What are these things? How does God see these things? Excuse me? But I'm saying, like, how does he actually see these things?"
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"...now, no one's going to read like... Who's a famous writer? Excuse me?"
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"...been doing this for 10 11 days yes yes yes uh excuse me no just like yeah i waited a long time"
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"You, yourself. Excuse me? Yourself. Yourself. You understand the idea here. What this is saying is this. Yes, we have the desire to climb..."
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"...him, Stassi has replied, while you were present here, let my excuse be, I cannot refuse you. Then he began, if, son, your mind..."
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