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One of the direct mechanical words Jiang emphasizes to show Lucifer as an instrument rather than an eloquent self.
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grinder
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It says he's a ship. I've never seen a ship with sails so wide. A ship is one of these words. What are some..."
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Students surface candidate descriptors from the canto, including ship, bird, bat, grinder, and giant, as the class searches for the right vocabulary for Lucifer's inert monstrosity.
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"It says he's a ship. I've never seen a ship with sails so wide. A ship is one of these words. What are some..."
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"...carefully. What words are being used to describe... Excuse me? A grinder? Yes. What else? There are lots of these. Grinder? What else?"
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"...a bloody froth. Within each mouth he used it like a grinder. With gnashing teeth he tore to bits a sinner, so that he..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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