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Prison for drunks
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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"...sip for an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn't come here on my own accord. I can't leave..."
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"This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return..."
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"...and those whom Gideon refused as comrades, those Hebrews who had drunk too avidly when he came down the hills to Midian. So, keeping..."
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"...This passage is like, what is going on here? Was Stony drunk when he wrote this?"
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"...the healthiest people you will meet. They're often daydreaming or getting drunk or something. Okay?"
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"...know? Like, because you can't, as you say, you can't get drunk and throw up, up there. So do it here, man. Right? What?..."
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"...vow. Is that serious? It's not like, okay, well, I got drunk and I did something stupid. No, no, no, no, no. It's you've..."
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"...like, yeah, I shit my wife, but you know, I got drunk and she raped me. So it wasn't really my choice. Okay. So,..."
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"...should pay your taxes. No, no, no, Vincent, you shouldn't drive drunk. Okay? And that's the idea. It's about alchemy, human perfection, trying to..."
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"...I didn't have any money. I was fat, I was a drunk. I was really depressed, I was suicidal. And then I met her...."
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"...bacchus who's the god of emotional rapturous creativity where you get drunk you have a lot of sex and then you express yourself okay..."
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"...material comfort. You want to have sex. You want to get drunk. You want to party. You want to drive a Ferrari. Okay? This..."
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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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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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