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Jiang's strongest formulation is that Lucifer functions like a giant air conditioner or ice blower whose wings merely keep the frozen lake cold.
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Cold
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A student proposes that Lucifer is the paradoxical source of cold in Dante's universe, and Jiang accepts that the image captures the logic of his punishment.
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"Structure. Do you understand? Windmill. Structure. Tower. He is a building. Okay? He is a machine. That's all he is. He's not even a......"
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"I think, yeah, it's... He's the paradoxical source of cold. So if cold is molecules vibrating less and less quickly, somehow there has to..."
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"So his punishment, his betrayal is so great, because he betrayed God, that his punishment is that he's lost all consciousness. Right? Now he's..."
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"...and sometimes saturn can no longer warm up the moon sent cold when geomancers can in the east see their fortuna major rising before..."
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"...like a failing thing, at which a chill seized me as cold grips one who goes to Midas death."
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"...again revert to rain as soon as it has climbed where cold unfolds his evil will which only seeks out evil conjoined with intellect..."
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"...and I went pale, as will a man who, terrified, turns cold as ice."
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"...side, transphixed by the celestial shaft. He lay ponderous on the cold, in fatal cold."
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"Do set us down below, where cold shuts in Cocytus, and do not disdain that task. Don't send us on to Tydeus or Typhon...."
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"...his face bent downward steadily their mouth bore witness to the cold they felt just as their eyes proclaimed their sorry hearts when i..."
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"...the ground before shed tears down on their lips until the cold held fast the tears and locked their lids still more no clamp..."
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"...that i saw a thousand faces may dog like by the cold for which i shudder and always will when i face frozen forwards..."
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