A student notes that Dante later misses Virgil, and Jiang accepts that as evidence that the attachment formed in Inferno persists beyond the escape from hell.
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The quoted lines define exile as losing everything one loves, being falsely blamed, tasting the salt of others' bread, and climbing other people's stairs.
The quoted turn toward Virgil compares Dante to a frightened child running to a mother and then discovers that Virgil has already withdrawn, leaving tears instead of reassurance.
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"Yeah. Because later we see as well that Dante misses Virgil."
"Yes. That's right. Okay. Do you see how beautiful this is? It's anticlimactic, but it's perfect ending and it's, it is so symbolic, right?..."
"Verse 52. The blame, as usual, will be cried out against the injured party, but just vengeance will serve as witness to the truth..."
"...myself for my salvation And even all our ancient mothers Their loss was not enough to keep my cheeks Though washed with dew From..."
"...down. Then there's one who, when he's outdone, fears his own loss of fame, power, honor, favor. His sadness loves misfortune for his neighbor...."
"...that he needs to sympathize with Mary and Madeleine on the loss of Lazarus, even though he's going to resurrect him ten minutes later."
"...85. I was so used to his insistent warnings against the loss of time concerning that his words to me could hardly be obscured...."
"...you really know. It's not that you're constantly thinking about the loss of another person but you are aware of it. And you know..."
"you're trying to change the loss of god okay it's not that you're not going to succeed but the fact that you're trying the..."
"...in, uh, in literature. Got, uh, Gerda with false Milton paradise loss. You have Philip Pullman who wrote his dark materials trilogy. Um, but..."
"...there is one who, when he is outdone, fears his own loss of fame, power, honor, favor. His sadness loves misfortune for his neighbor...."
"...avenge the dead. In order to save the life of their loss leader, Jacques de Molay in 1314, okay? So the Freemasons think centuries..."
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