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Jiang answers that Dante would be disgusted by modern megacity life because mass society strips people of rooted community, purpose, and identity and reduces them to cogs.
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Dante today
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"question okay um and quite honestly if dante were alive today he could not possibly understand why we live the way we do right..."
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"point your society has to be organized a certain way um you lose your sense of community you lose your sense of identity you..."
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"...we discussed this about Homer and Dante, right? Especially Homer and Dante. Today I'll show you how Shakespeare radically transformed the English imagination. All..."
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"Okay, good morning. So we finished Dante today and this will be our last session before the semester breaks. We'll come back in a..."
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"...okay? So we will do, we will spend two classes on Dante today and next Tuesday, and this will be the third one. So,..."
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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