Jiang rejects the idea that Dante simply wills himself forward in the dream; Lucia's literal carrying shows that ascent here depends on aid rather than autonomous self-propulsion.
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The quoted canto portrays Virgil as temporarily shaken and needing aid from a higher authority despite his past excursions through hell.
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"That's right, okay. So one possibility is that Lucia and all the women, Rachel, Ruth, and Beatrice, are all praying for him. And so..."
"So this whole journey, I don't want to say it's a dream, but it's like a vision of some sort. And so he's having..."
"I would say it's the opposite, right? Because Lucia literally carries him. Right? Lucia literally carries him all the way to the gate, which..."
"Canto 9. The color cowardice displayed in me when I saw that my guide was driven back made him more quickly mask his own..."
"So he's very disappointed he was not able to convince the demons. Okay, keep on going."
"He stood alert like an attentive listener because his eyes could hardly journey far across the black air and the heavy fog. We have..."
"...that he who would have grace but does not seek your aid may long to fly but has no wings. Your loving kindness does..."
"...if you have taken in my words, you need no other aid to contemplate much in regard to this consistory. But since on earth..."
"...Number three. Section 224 is a backdoor way to provide military aid to Israel. There's nothing mythical about this."
"...factual. Section 224 does not authorize a single dollar of new aid or facility to transfer any additional arms to Israel. Okay. But what..."
"...''that he who would have grace but does not seek, ''your aid may long to fly but has no wings.'' Okay, so what Bernard..."
"...of Soviet Union what did America do America sent billions of aid to Soviet Union basically America industrialized the Soviet economy I mean that..."
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