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The reading distinguishes chained rebel giants like Iphialtes from Antaeus, who is unchained and able to carry Dante and Virgil down toward Cocytus.
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Descent
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Jiang accepts a student's formulation that as Dante descends he becomes both more pious and more cruel.
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The canto descent is staged through the Minotaur and a shattered path whose collapse Virgil links to the cosmic shock around Christ's harrowing of hell.
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The soul-descent passage Jiang has Alan read frames the human soul as originating in a holy heavenly region, descending into the body through degradations, and recovering purity by reascending toward its native luminous home.
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The descent of Nietzsche's Zarathustra repeats the cave model: solitary wisdom is incomplete until it is given to others.
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"So turning to the left, we journeyed on, and at the distance of a bow, shot, found another giant, far more huge and fierce,..."
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"The one you wish to see lies far beyond, and is bound up and just as huge as this one, and even more ferocious..."
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"why would he do that yes oh he's in hell go with the flow right like i noticed too like as he as we..."
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"Counter 12, the place that we had reached for our descent along the bank was Alpine. What reclined upon that bank would too repel..."
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"Line 22. Just as the bull that breaks loose from its halter the moment it receives the fatal stroke, and cannot run but plunges..."
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"...to understand this old thought, first follow the soul and its descent. The sphere or heaven of the fixed stars was that holy region,..."
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"you actually read what Nietzsche writes, you will see that it's actually pretty similar to what Zoroastria himself promoted during his time. Of course,..."
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"Though great star, what would thy happiness be if thou hadst not those for whom thou shyest? For ten years hast thou climbed hither..."
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"Okay? So, Zoroastria has hid himself in the cave. And inside the cave, there is nothing. In the cave, in solitude, he has discovered..."
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"...post direction rises at an angle equal to its angle of descent. And to each. Side the distance from the vertical is equal as..."
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"...deep, and by protruding stones that served as stairs for our descent before, my guide climbed up again and drew me forward. And as..."
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"...the true path by Photinus. It would be better to delay descent so that our senses may grow somewhat used to this foul stench,..."
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