Jiang rejects treating the dialogue as a literal transcript of heaven and pushes the class to ask why Dante the poet structures the exchange this way.
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Dante the poet
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Why is Beatrice wasting everyone's time? Why is she doing this? Why doesn't she tell Dante, Dante, you're a moron, and here's the truth...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Why is Beatrice wasting everyone's time? Why is she doing this? Why doesn't she tell Dante, Dante, you're a moron, and here's the truth...."
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"Why is Beatrice wasting everyone's time? Why is she doing this? Why doesn't she tell Dante, Dante, you're a moron, and here's the truth...."
"Do you think this conversation actually took place? Okay. So why is this conversation happening?"
"I think this is Dante the poet actually structuring it in such a way to demonstrate the difference between what we've mentioned earlier, knowledge..."
"...divine comedy what happens is that we start off with dante the poet lost in the woods and it's a symbol or metaphor for..."
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