Defined by Jiang as stealing another's ideas and passing them off as one's own, then extended to Virgil's relation to Homer.
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plagiarism
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Key Notes
Jiang compares this poetic theft to plagiarism, which he says is treated in universities as a deeper violation than ordinary financial crime because it steals and corrupts another's intellectual work.
Jiang rejects repentance as the real answer and reframes the packet around a deeper paradox: Sinon is punished while Virgil, the plagiarist who created and empowered Sinon, walks freely through hell.
Jiang says Virgil's anger does not prove confession but refusal: he is enraged because he does not want to admit the charge of plagiarism.
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"That's interesting. What's the worst thing you can do in university plagiarism, right? Plagiarism is a lot worse than counterfeiting the coin, right? If..."
"plagiarism means to steal ideas, mother people and pretend it's your own."
"...the most to me being found out, right? Being accused of plagiarism, right? Um, and so Virgil's very, very angry. What's the paradox here?..."
"Yeah. Okay. So that's not the answer. Okay. It's possible, right? But again, this is raising a paradox, which is like, why is sign..."
"Is it that Virgil admits that he did plagiarism by being angry at being accused of plagiarism? Well,"
"he's angry because he doesn't want to admit it. Right. Okay. So again, this could all, this creates all these paradoxes here. And so..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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