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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...what it really is, is the secret garden. It's the Bible of humanity. Right? The Bible is the major religious text for most people..."
Jiang calls Divine Comedy the 'secret garden' and the 'Bible of humanity,' arguing that for intellectuals and writers it functions as a lifelong imaginative guide capable of producing major thinkers.
"...what it really is, is the secret garden. It's the Bible of humanity. Right? The Bible is the major religious text for most people..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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