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Jiang also implies a hierarchy within Inferno by saying the earlier circles are not yet hell proper in the fullest sense, which is why the timeline appears shorter only at first glance.
The quoted Dante passage says Beatrice's clear answer turns truth into a visible star and causes the surrounding circles to shower sparks.
The quoted passage says a mortal could speak this secret truth on earth because it was revealed by someone who had seen the circles above.
"...is this is where hell proper is. And then the other circles, they're kind of like not that serious. Do you understand? And before..."
"...as and contest incandescent iron will shower sparks so did those circles sparkle and in each spark circled with its flaming ring okay"
"...who sought here above both that and other truths about these circles."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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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