Jiang imagines Virgil's dominant reaction to Dante's shadow obsession as impatience and frustration, with some jealousy possible, rather than satisfaction at controlling him.
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Frustration
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A student explains the rain punishment by saying it leaves the glutton thirsty and dependent on tiny drops that never truly satisfy desire.
Student suggestions sharpen one possible logic of gluttony punishment as endless pursuit without satisfaction, such as running forever toward unreachable cake.
Jiang says violence remains a live possibility within this anti-establishment mood, because frustration is deepening while legitimate political outlets feel hollow.
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"now okay and how does virgil feel about all this what is going in the mind of virgil as he's seeing this anyone yes..."
"...thinks what is virgil's major emotion right now it's kind of frustration right like what a douchebag this guy is but what else what's..."
"of all there's this saying the fires of last so symbolically the rain is meant to put out the firebalast and not so symbolically..."
"life until you're thin right uh yes maybe just put food just out of your range you can see it but you cannot yeah..."
"a cake in front of you and you're running around as fast as you can but you can never actually touch the cake okay..."
"um but violence is definitely like like you know in in uh in the cards right now okay so it's so so i would..."
"frustration i would just be like there's a simpler way you're making this more complex than it needs"
"...mandate that he had because because of all these decades of frustration among the German people. People."
"...so I think young people um feel a deep sense of frustration of hopelessness and they're they're depressed I I don't know any other..."
"...galvanized the people. They sort of took advantage of people's discontent, frustration, and they led them to overthrow the regime. You know, organic revolutions..."
"...sucks and um so so so i think there's just incredible frustration incredible disillusionment and um i think there's going to be an increasing..."
"...the sunshine state i'm greg carlwood and one of the biggest frustrations a lot of us have with conventional geopolitical analysis is repeatedly seen..."
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