Jiang reads the angelic gate as generous on the front end but demanding afterward: entry is open to many, yet once inside, doubt and backward-looking are intolerable.
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Resolution
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"Line 115. Ashes are dry earth that has just been quarried, with cheer one color with his rope, and from beneath that rope, he..."
"Okay, so the angel is saying two things about this gate, okay? The first thing about this gate is that they're generous. They will..."
"...of lust okay um and we never really reach a satisfactory resolution to the problem the sin of lust why would lust be an..."
"...make cowards of us all and thus the native hue of resolution is sickly it over with the pale cast of thought and enterprises..."
"...your anger you can like, like you can find like a resolution throughout that. That's what Donnie says, but why? What happened?"
"...not saying this is what happened. I'm saying this is a resolution to the paradox here. How is it that Dante doesn't know Beatrice..."
"...some comments online talking about the sound quality and the video resolution quality, and Carol and her team worked really hard yesterday, and now..."
"...um and the third issue is um the quality of the resolution the resolution quality unfortunately because it's a live stream we have to..."
"...on the Trump White House, primarily through Kushner, to seek a resolution as soon as possible. There are only two off -ramps. The first..."
"...it was already prearranged between the Republicans and Democrats that this resolution would fail in other words it may be to Republicans voted yes..."
"...they actually have enough to actually just vote through war power resolutions and they just got him completely."
"...but this war just drag s on and there 's no resolution to the this war and then what 's going to happen is..."
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