Jiang says a student's major does not matter because, in his diagnosis, university itself is a scam.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"No, it does not matter to the major. It's all a scam."
"...sent cold when geomancers can in the east see their fortuna major rising before the dawn along a path that will be darkened for..."
"...in the final moment when ania i'm not finding but the major moment where neos kills turnus if you're really moved by that and..."
"...Trojans. That's the entire line in the Aeneid. He's not a major character, okay? So can we write what Virgil writes? Just open up,..."
"...no no that's that's not how virgil thinks what is virgil's major emotion right now it's kind of frustration right like what a douchebag..."
"hello we have this major encounter between kato and virgil it's a very embarrassing awkward encounter right so how could virgil not know he's..."
"...a little bit confused about what would you say is the major point of the long canto where he lists all the kings, because..."
"...there's really no difference but uh for dante there is a major difference right one the difference is uh between fulfilling people's exploitation of..."
"...like mark zuckerberg is a sort of discord and that's the major concern about social media right before you had the evening news and..."
"...to the army so this caused the guelphs to lose a major battle okay and that's why um baka is being punished and donnie..."
"...within the group of guests under god so it's really the major violence against god"
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