Glossary
Corrupt stealing from a position of service or office, illustrated here by the Navarrese court servant punished in boiling pitch.
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graft
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "let's let's start cattle uh infernal 21. canto 21. we came along from one bridge to another talking of things my comedy is not..."
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Topic Scope And Freshness
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "let's let's start cattle uh infernal 21. canto 21. we came along from one bridge to another talking of things my comedy is not..."
Key Notes
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The reading of Canto 21 introduces grafters and corrupt officials submerged in boiling pitch and hunted by demons, shifting the lecture from the homosexuality dispute into the bolgia of graft.
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Jiang defines the current bolgia as the fraud circle for grafters, where corruption and simony are punished by immersion in boiling filth and renewed torment when the damned try to surface.
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Jiang treats the punishment of grafters as unusual because it includes repeated apparent opportunities for escape rather than static confinement.
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The class identifies graft not only as taking resources from others but as a compulsion that keeps making the sinner try again.
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The Navarrese sinner is presented in the canto as a corrupt court servant whose punishment is tied to graft rather than open violence or lust.
model
Jiang frames graft as a crime in which the sinner could return what was taken at many points but instead keeps choosing the illicit gain.
definition
The class distinguishes graft from simple greed by tying it to entitlement and misuse of position rather than only desire for a particular object like money.
diagnosis
Jiang implies that pride is involved in graft because the thief privately decides the stolen thing is more properly his than the owner's.
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"let's let's start cattle uh infernal 21. canto 21. we came along from one bridge to another talking of things my comedy is not..."
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"while I washed below attentively my guide called out to me take care take care and then from where I stood he drew me..."
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"...taunted here one dances undercover so try to grab your secret graft below okay all right so we are in the"
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"...punishment for the for grafters people who engage in corruption and graft and um the example being used is this um priest who who..."
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"...household of the worthy kings of tebow there i started taking graft with this heat i pay reckoning for that and chiriato from his..."
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"there while i fork him fast and turning toward my master then he said ask on if you would learn some more from him..."
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"okay stop okay all right so um let's feel free about this is an unusual punishment because it gives the people here an opportunity..."
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"graft yes go ahead and graft they take resources and things away from people who should have right"
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"okay and so why would this be a fitting punishment for them uh yes maybe because it's"
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"doing that is so addicting that they can't stop doing it right okay so there's a compulsion to"
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"them yes right they have to steal they have engaging grab yes okay that's part one part"
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"of it yes and the mechanism of it if you steal something you can always at every part of the journey you can always..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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