Jiang says the extreme structural consistency of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso is easier to explain if Dante is channeling divine fire rather than merely planning carefully.
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Consistency
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Jiang states that Dante published Inferno first and later published Purgatory and Paradiso, yet the poem contains no inconsistencies across those realms.
Jiang takes the mention of Beatrice sitting beside Rachel as another proof that Inferno stays consistent with the Paradise cosmology already discussed in class.
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"...of paradise um virgil already knows and also shows you the consistency the totality of divine comedy right where all three inferno purgatory and..."
"don't know how you could do that as a human being and this is an age before computers this is an age even before..."
"Inferno first, yes, right, so, so, so, he had patrons, and he would write these manager forms for his patrons, so he first published..."
"All right, let's keep on going. Verse 76. And again, again, like, we have already read Paradise, so we know exactly what happens. So..."
"lady, one who weeps for the distress toward which I send you, so that stern judgment up above is shattered. And it was she..."
"Beatrice is sitting next to Rachel, and it says it here as well, okay? There's actually no inconsistency in divine comedy. Keep on going...."
"more instance of the consistency of this portrayal that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are always putting off onto something slightly external the impulses that..."
"...want her to know he is in pain, okay? Again, the consistency here, right? Think about how consistent this is. All right, let's keep..."
"Okay. Right. So what the Catholic Church insists on is the consistency and the constancy of Christianity, right? It's all consistent. And what Adam..."
"Professor Zhang, your game theory approach consistency drives toward a coherent conclusion of U.S. decline, Chinese vindication, Iranian resilience. In the spirit of the..."
"yeah what's interesting with Trump though there's some consistency here I mean many people I guess mistook his rhetoric for being you know all..."
"...-authority system that sort of still exists with a lot of consistency of chalk and talk kind of teaching which has its goals I..."
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