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Jiang defines poetry's dark power here as the ability to hijack imagination with a false narrative powerful enough to destroy a city.
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"Okay. Right. So this is a very long speech. But the idea is with his poetry, he's able to elicit sympathy and that convinced..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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