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Students initially interpret shadow as a reduced imitation of reality: something derivative, two-dimensional, and not the thing itself.
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One student's gloss, which Jiang accepts as useful, is that Dante is still mentally trapped in a cave-like world of shadows and appearances.
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The hypocrites are punished by heavy lead cloaks whose glittering exterior and crushing interior mirror the split between appearance and reality.
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Jiang rejects the idea that care for appearance alone proves anything and instead asks what we call a person who cares too much about self-presentation.
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A student proposes that lust focuses on outward image while love depends on emotional connection and getting to know the person.
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"to imitate something real right right but it's not yeah uh it's two -dimensional as well it's"
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"two -dimensional yes it means that in the platonic idea that a form has been instantiated so that when light shines on it beings..."
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"Because he's, he's also still in the cave mentally."
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"Right. So, so why is he having to see the shadow? What's going to happen now?"
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"58. Below that point we found a painted people who moved about the lagging steps, encircled, weeping, with features tired and defeated. And they..."
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"And so for his punishment, he is crucified to the ground and everyone just walks on him. This is the area of the hypocrites..."
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"...he just a European? Like, like, caring about, caring about your appearance, is not something that you can just define as inherently gay."
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"I don't think there's a logical correlation between that. If you care too much about your parents, and all you care about your, your..."
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"maybe another part is um i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know lust..."
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"...face, and yet his voice made plain to me what his appearance had obliterated. This spark rekindled in me everything I knew about those..."
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"...whoever would journey unto peace must pass this way. But its appearance had deprived me of my sight, so that as one who used..."
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"...Italy, so that another later must restore her. His neighbor, whose appearance comforts him, governed the land in which are born the waters of..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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