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The Casella episode introduces an old friend who meets Dante with memory, affection, and song rather than hostility.
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Casella
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Therefore I stay, but you, why do you journey my own casella to return again to where I am? I journeyed thus, but why..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Therefore I stay, but you, why do you journey my own casella to return again to where I am? I journeyed thus, but why..."
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Jiang contrasts Dante's affectionate reunion with Casella against the hostile Virgil-Cato meeting, using the interruption to show Dante's recurring pattern of staging opposites.
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"...Therefore I stay, but you, why do you journey my own casella to return again to where I am? I journeyed thus, but why..."
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"And yet for three months now, he has accepted more, most tranquilly, all those who would embark. Therefore I, who had turned then to..."
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"Okay. So, um, Dante sees an old friend from Florence. Uh, this friend has died. Um, and they're very happy to see each other...."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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