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A student argues that Lucifer's tears imply at least some level of comprehension, not pure dead matter.
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Tears
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "But I think he does have some level of comprehension because it does say that he's crying."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "But I think he does have some level of comprehension because it does say that he's crying."
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The old man of Crete allegorically generates hell's rivers through tears that drip from cracks in the metallic body and become Acheron, Styx, Phlegethon, and later Cocytus.
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The quoted turn toward Virgil compares Dante to a frightened child running to a mother and then discovers that Virgil has already withdrawn, leaving tears instead of reassurance.
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The quoted Beatrice passage tells Dante not to spend his tears on Virgil yet because a harsher wound still lies ahead, effectively shifting his attention away from the guide who just vanished.
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"But I think he does have some level of comprehension because it does say that he's crying."
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"pours a brook whose waters then are shared by prostitutes, so did the stream run down across the sand. Its bed and both its..."
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"...except the gold is cracked, and down that fissure there are tears that drip. When gathered, they pierce through that cavern's floor, and crossing..."
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"...keep my cheeks Though washed with dew From darkening again with tears"
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"...Do not yet weep Do not weep yet You'll need your tears For what another sword must yet inflict Just like an admiral who..."
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"...it appeared, then there appeared to me another woman upon her, tears that grieve the stills when it is born of much scorn for..."
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"...then Virgil comes forward, and then he seizes the siren and tears her clothes apart. What's going on here? Let's try to figure out..."
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"...have you stop longer. Your staying here disturbs my lamentations. The tears that help me ripen what you mentioned. Beyond, I have a niece..."
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"...was attentive to the shades. I heard the sorrow in their tears and lamentations. Then I, by chance, heard one ahead of us crying..."
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"...shades who lay along the ground who had resumed their customary tears. My ignorance has never struggled so, has never made me long so..."
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"...said be still and yet the powerful cannot do all for tears and smiles are both so faithful to the feelings that have prompted..."
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"...And he to me, it is Mynella, who, with her abundant tears, has guided me to drink the sweet wormwood of torments. She. Who,..."
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