Judge of hell whose warning Jiang interprets as a clue against trusting Virgil.
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Minos
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...broken for us. This man's alive and I'm not bound by Minos, but I'm from the circle where the chaste eyes of your Marsha..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...broken for us. This man's alive and I'm not bound by Minos, but I'm from the circle where the chaste eyes of your Marsha..."
Key Notes
Virgil also argues that Dante is alive and not under Minos's sentencing, which is why he can move beyond the inner circles of hell.
Jiang interprets Minos's warning to Dante about whom to trust as specifically implying that Dante should not trust Virgil.
Timestamped Evidence
"...broken for us. This man's alive and I'm not bound by Minos, but I'm from the circle where the chaste eyes of your Marsha..."
"Okay. So, um, Virgil is telling, uh, Cato, uh, why they're, they're, they're here. And Virgil explains that Dante is not dead so he..."
"...space but grief more great that goads to weeping their dreadful Mino stands gnashing his teeth examining the sins of the world and the..."
"...interesting passage that again makes us question things, okay? Okay, so Minos, who's basically deciding which level of hell you go to based on..."
"...no more. We are, I represent a higher power than you, Minos, all right? So again, this is questioning the reliability of the narrator...."
"...not think that i was a logician he carried me to minos and that monster twisted his tail eight times around his hide and..."
"...had one who held him as a son burn me but minos who cannot mistake condemned my spirit to the final pouch of ten..."
"...spirit quits the body from which it has torn itself. Then Minos sends it to the seventh maw. It falls into the wood, and..."
"nor did he interrupt his downward plunge to minos who lays hands on every sinner see how he's made a chest out of his..."
"...broken for us. This man's alive and I'm not bound by Minos. But I am from the circle where the chastised eyes of your..."
"...broken for us this man's alive and I'm not bound by minos but I am from the circle where the chaste eyes of your..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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