A student notes that Dante later misses Virgil, and Jiang accepts that as evidence that the attachment formed in Inferno persists beyond the escape from hell.
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Jiang's own happiest memory in this exchange is simply being with his children, which keeps the class's account of heaven anchored in intimate human attachment.
For Jiang, Dante's exile works because he never leaves Florence psychologically: love for Florence, family, neighbors, and Beatrice keeps him rooted even while displaced.
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"Yeah. Because later we see as well that Dante misses Virgil."
"Yes. That's right. Okay. Do you see how beautiful this is? It's anticlimactic, but it's perfect ending and it's, it is so symbolic, right?..."
"Well. Well. Obviously. My. Children. Yeah. When. I'm. With. My. Children. Yes. Anyone. Else. Yes."
"live in the city you're gonna be much more creative than you think you're gonna be more creative than you if you live in..."
"he may leave points physically but even when he leaves florence he still remembers florence he still um is nostalgic for lord he still..."
"...a woman uh including um deep physical and other kinds of attachment um and also including suspicion jealousy um so you know the the..."
"...or an interest in romance, but who form a deep, profound attachment to colors, sounds, or concepts. If their intense love for painting, music,..."
"...finger on the pulse of the public. They respond to the attachment. But I wanted to ask about Trump for that one reason, though,..."
"...of unfit characters from state prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity. Okay, let's just say the president..."
"There was real no emotional attachment to strangers. Now in China there's a lot like emotional attachment to your relatives and the people you..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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