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Jiang identifies Odysseus' traumatic recognition: he killed a husband and watched the widow's suffering, seeing Penelope in the woman he helped destroy.
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Widow
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"Okay, so now we know what happened, okay? Alright, so what happened was this. For ten years, Odysseus and the Greeks were trying to..."
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"And Odysseus is traumatized by this woman being traumatized because he came to Troy to save the woman, right? He sees Penelope in this..."
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"...who is nearest to my beak is one who comforted the widow for her son. Now he has learned the price one pays for..."
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"...has freed me from circles underneath the circle. She, my gentle widow, whom I loved most dearly, was all the more beloved and prized..."
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"...is this possible, Forese? And what does he, Forese, say? His widow, Nella, right, prayed every day for him. And because Nella was particularly..."
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"...know that your loved one is in purgatory yes to the widows and the mothers and the family"
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"...his great victory. I mean the emperor Trajan, and a poor widow was near his bridle, and he stood even as one in tears..."
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"...husband, cut off from life so young. You leave me a widow lost in the royal halls, and the boy only a baby. The..."
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"...have written on your sub stack so there was a certain widow who had many children she came to a rabbi asking him for..."
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"...doctor could help him he was advised to send for that widow she came and began to pray over him what he had taught..."
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"...rather than live without one or the other of you, as widows or as orphans."
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"...-aged bureaucrat. And he's been poor. And he marries a poor widow as well. And they have like four children to feed. So the..."
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