Jiang responds by reconstructing Piccarda's inner scene under coercion: fear of violent soldiers and concern for everyone in the convent become the emotional test of what her will is actually doing.
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Convent
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"into this okay you're picarda okay you're in a convent you're happy in the convent soldiers come to you okay let's try to imagine..."
"um really in despair because obviously as like one woman she um cannot face off this group of people fear and despair right yeah..."
"...like okay let's use your imagination there's an army surrounding the convent okay the army says you come up now or come in and..."
"...picardo what'd she do wrong she was forced to leave the convent she had no choice in the matter so why is she stuck..."
"...to create a military alliance so he steals her from the convent and marries her off and again she did nothing wrong but she..."
"...go deeper into this okay you're picarda okay you're in a convent you're happy in the convent soldiers come to you okay let's try..."
"...okay let's let's use your imagination there's an army surrounding the convent okay they already said you come up now or come in and..."
"...what did she do wrong? She was forced to leave the convent, she had no choice in the matter. So why is she stuck..."
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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