Jiang says the class is beginning by establishing themes and ideas that structure the Divine Comedy before moving into questions and exercises meant to strengthen intuition and imagination.
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Jiang tells the class they will visit the spheres one by one, turning the organ metaphor into the structural map for later parts of the course.
He frames the discussion as ongoing and promises continuation, signaling this as the opening of a longer semester argument rather than a conclusion.
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"Uh, welcome back to the livestream. Okay. So, uh, for those of you watching online, um. please note that every day we start class..."
"different Spears that we see in the heavens they're like organs in a body right and what's really important to understand is that each..."
"Alright? Okay. So, we will continue this next week. On Thursday, Trump is in China. Thanks for watching."
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