Jiang frames the first day as establishing the themes and ideas that structure the Divine Comedy before moving into exercises that strengthen intuition and imagination.
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"...eat okay so um again for the first day we're establishing themes and ideas that structure the divine harmony and then um after we..."
"...territory. Athena loved Pallas and accidentally killed her. So while the theme of killing a twin is the same, I don't see how this..."
"...we're going to go very slowly we're going to establish the themes the motifs the concepts that's going to help us truly understand uh..."
"...There I shall take as crown the leaves of which my theme and you shall make me work."
"...we move on? Okay. So, I'm trying to establish the major themes. That we'll be exploring throughout the light column here. Okay? All right...."
"don't understand that okay so there are two major themes today the first major theme is Dante's Revolution against the Catholic Church okay what..."
"...going to go very slowly, and we're going to establish the themes, the motifs, the concepts, that's going to help us truly understand the..."
"...we move on okay so i'm trying to establish the major themes that we'll be exploring throughout the divine comedy okay all right are..."
"...eat okay so um again for the first day we're establishing themes and ideas that structure the divine harmony and then um after we..."
"...Oracle says, do you keep notes of important news items or themes to connect them later on?"
"...develops a model I believe may resonate with some of the themes you teach. If you happen to have the time to read it,..."
"...sacrifice, about eschatology. Israel is about covenant, about history. And these themes resonate throughout time and space. And that's why right now, we're seeing..."
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