Jiang treats the marble carvings as living art that defeats nature and immediately establishes humility as the first visual lesson waiting inside purgatory.
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Marble
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...bank, less sheer than banks of other terraces, was of white marble, and adorned with carvings so accurate not only pericletous, but even nature..."
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"...bank, less sheer than banks of other terraces, was of white marble, and adorned with carvings so accurate not only pericletous, but even nature..."
"...me, my eyes, was more distinct. There carved in that same marble were the cart and oxen as they drew the sacred ark, which..."
"One son said no, the other said yes, they do sing. Just so, about the incense smoke shown there, my nose and eyes contended..."
"Around him horsemen seemed to press and crowd, above their heads on golden banners eagles were represented moving in the wind. Among that crowd..."
"There we approached, and the first step was white marble, so polished and so clear that I was mirrored there as I appear in..."
"...who lived below had as his home a cave among white marbles from which he could gaze at stars and sea with unimpeded view..."
"후보 ok marble here and this is the photo called arte x you can tell this is from theis you know the picture is..."
"...of that eternal justice whose laws have been inscribed not in marble and stone but in the hearts of all men. Even in that..."
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