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Jiang's reading of the serpent as a sign of the primal broken bond among God, Adam, Eve, and the social order that follows from it.
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Genesis trust-break
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Eve and the snake convinced them to, uh, disobey God and break that trust, that bond between God. Okay. Clearly there's a reference to..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Eve and the snake convinced them to, uh, disobey God and break that trust, that bond between God. Okay. Clearly there's a reference to..."
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"...Eve and the snake convinced them to, uh, disobey God and break that trust, that bond between God. Okay. Clearly there's a reference to..."
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"...So that's a very simple message. And then you try to break it down. As you try to break it down, I guess what..."
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"...the sphere that's always playing like a child appears from day break to the end of the third hour. So many were the hours..."
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"...the indian ad okay all right guys so we'll take a break we'll come back uh at lunch after lunch okay uh welcome back..."
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"...it make sense? If your body doesn't have food, the organs break down and you die, okay? But in purgatory, it's a different process...."
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"...duty but the duty is strong and binding and he practically breaks down himself in that strong metaphor about the newborn babe pity striding..."
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"...really make sense because your punishment would change, and so it breaks the whole thing about Inferno where you're supposed to be punished for..."
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"break free a hundred percent okay um so you guys are working on the assumption that slaves aren't happy okay you're thinking to yourself..."
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"...all right, so one last question, and then we'll take a break, okay? So clearly, there are references to the Garden of Eden, because..."
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"...right, that's right. Right. Okay, great. Okay, so let's take a break, and we'll come back at 1 o 'clock, okay? Okay, good afternoon,..."
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"...and this imagined conflagration scorched me so, I was compelled to break my sleep. Just like the wicking of Achilles when he started up,..."
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"I would connect it back to prior to our one hour break, we were just told by Sordello that nobody can move ahead at..."
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