Jiang says Oh, John le Carre. He wrote these spy novels. He was very popular in a day. What? Um, so. So his most famous is the spy...
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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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"Oh, John le Carre. He wrote these spy novels. He was very popular in a day. What? Um, so. So his most famous is..."
"...Valentino Borgia. He got a letter of recommendation where this guy wrote that he was the reincarnation of Thomas Aquinas. And it made the..."
"...up on it. you're like okay this is the guy who wrote the the iniat right because when you read the iniat what you're..."
"...like intimately right he's like yeah it's obviously he will he wrote the iniat so you're all provided a way to understand the iniat..."
"...received by neoclassical French critics who held against him that he wrote plays that didn't obey the unities, the supposed all -important Aristotelian unities..."
"shakespeare wrote the witch burnings are are um into the 17th century so uh you know the the belief that witches operate is is..."
"...about that speech. When Abraham Lincoln, who knew Shakespeare pretty well, wrote a letter to the author of a book on Shakespeare and says..."
"...can add up from the three dozen odd plays that shakespeare wrote but in the case of the divine comedy the unity is obviously..."
"...was still virgil who kind of started off hell when he wrote the iniat or was it was hell like because in the roman..."
"Yes. When I wrote it, president worked like that. Why not? Because Jesus hadn't died or Mary had not given birth to him."
"...of Revelations, which is the last book of the Bible, John wrote a lot of visions about what he saw about angels and the..."
"...a few much or a little when in the world I wrote my noble lines, do not move on. Let one of you retell..."
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