Jiang reads the frog-and-mouse fable as a miniature of the demon episode: the demons try to swindle Dante and Virgil, become greedy for more victims, and end up caught by their own trap.
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Aesop
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"Story summary of Aesop's frog and mouse. A mouse first asked the frog for help with crossing a river to visit the frog's home...."
"Sure. Okay. So this applies to the demons, right? The demons mean to swindle Don and Virgil, cheat him, but they get greedy, they..."
"...they walk together. The press and fracas, made me think of Aesop, that fable where he tells about the mouse and frog. For near..."
"Okay, sorry. Can you Google Aesop's fable of the frog and the horse? Okay. I don't have it remembered. Okay. So frog and horse...."
"...about maybe a dozen of them. And I agree. It's like Aesop's fables I read to my kids. Like stories are great. And I'd..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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