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Jiang's brief framing identifies the monarchs as anti-Purgatory souls who must still complete penance before they are ready to climb the mountain itself.
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Climbing
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"Okay, so these are monarchs, right? And again, they are anti -purgatory. They are waiting until they've made their penance and they're ready to..."
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"...retribution for all their crimes. Second point is like, as they're climbing up the mountain, there's an earthquake, it shakes. The reason why the..."
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"...follows after him. His help has drawn me up from there, climbing and circling round this mountain, which makes straight you whom the world..."
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"...in hell they are in the circle of fraud and they're climbing these boulders right and it's tiring for Dante so Donnie slows down..."
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"...and not that anything except the dark of night prevents your climbing up it is the night itself that implicates your will once darkness..."
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"...speak. Where's your escort? Take care lest you be harmed by climbing here. My master answered him."
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"...breaks off. The breath within my lungs was so exhausted from climbing, I could not go on. In fact, as soon as I had..."
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"...healing one. We turned our backs upon that dismal valley by climbing up the bank that girdles it. We made our way across without..."
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"...hell is Virgil climbs Lucifer. Where's Dante? Virgil is the one climbing Lucifer, right? Where is Dante? Where's Dante? On the back of Virgil...."
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"...marrying birth. It's hell. Now it's complete darkness and Virgil is climbing Lucifer with Dante on his back and they go into the light...."
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"...we take and he to me don't squander any steps keep climbing up the mountain after me until we find some expert company the..."
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"climbing it is hardest at the start but as we rise the slope grows less unkind therefore when this slope seems to you so..."
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