Jiang endorses the reading that Virgil regretted the merciless ending of the Aeneid and even wished he had burned the manuscript.
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Regret
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "aeneas sees palace's sword belt and in the aeneid that's so um the aeneid portrays like aeneas he's really sad he's really upset he's..."
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Achilles' underworld speech reverses his life project: from eternity, he regrets choosing young heroic death over an old life with family.
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"aeneas sees palace's sword belt and in the aeneid that's so um the aeneid portrays like aeneas he's really sad he's really upset he's..."
"just did yeah and virgil did say he didn't he wished he didn't write that because he wanted to burn the manuscript right so..."
"And then Achilles says, he reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting. No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus. By God,..."
"...meaning and purpose. And I discovered that, you know what, I regret my life, because I should have died an old man, my family,..."
"...and right. Left or right can mean a step you will regret. Then from the heart of that great conflagration I heard Sumé Dave's..."
"...in the past now. No more reason to contemplate, to have regrets, whatever. But that second statement, what's done cannot be undone, points to..."
"...breach, the gait that let Rome's noble seed escape. There they regret the guile that makes the dead Didymia still lament Achilles, and there..."
"...speak so angrily, I turn around to him with shame. I regret that it still stirs within my memory. Even as one who dreams..."
"...he kills his landlady. But in other words, he feels tremendous regret for what he did. And what saves him is his love for..."
"...all. I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen, never regret my memories of Ditto, not while I can recall myself and draw..."
"...yourself with a memory of it okay your soul burns with regret and despair and guilt and shame it doesn't make sense all right..."
"You have these psychopaths who run the world. They don't feel regret. They don't forgive each other. So how do we perceive these people,..."
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