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Jiang reads Dante riding on Virgil's back while they climb from darkness into sunlight as an allegorical setup whose meaning is still being tested through class guesses.
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Sunlight
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Okay? So they're climbing out of hell and they go into sunlight. What does this remind you of? This is an allegory for what?"
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The eclipse argument says that if the moon were truly hollow in the relevant way, sunlight would show through it during an eclipse, and because that does not happen the first hypothesis collapses.
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"...Okay? So they're climbing out of hell and they go into sunlight. What does this remind you of? This is an allegory for what?"
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"Yes? Icar. What? Icar. The one that flew and that got too close to the sun. Oh, Icar. Icarus. Icarus. Yeah. Yes?"
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"And more... What did I hear? And more, where rarity the cause of the dim spots... Sorry, sorry....question empowers... Anyway, I'll just repeat it...."
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"...reached sunset. Vespers was there and where we are midnight. When sunlight struck directly at our faces for we had circled so much of..."
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"...you, in the morning, what you do is you get some sunlight, and you put on some really nice music, you'll feel better about..."
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"...plainly that you're looking at a human body that's why the sunlight on the ground is broken don't be astonished rush assured that he..."
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"...zodiac so as to interpose itself who says so lies for sunlight hid itself not only jews but spaniards"
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"...that what you mean by God, the way that we get sunlight and water and God gives us everything, our substances and what we..."
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"...change he goes up into the real world where there is sunlight and he sees the truth right and now he's able to see..."
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"...in order for the beans to climb in order to reach sunlight. Okay? The bean will fertilize the corn and squash by releasing nitrogen..."
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"...it's painful because his eyes are not trained to see the sunlight, okay? So the sunlight, it's like burning him, okay?"
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"...in the pool. But then he slowly acclimatizes himself to the sunlight and he starts to see the world around him. And it's beautiful,..."
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