Jiang treats his intellectual divergence from Bromwich as positive, saying real mentorship does not require identical worldviews.
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Jiang says the shades are interested in Dante because his shadow reveals he is alive and different from them.
Jiang keeps the pressure on by saying the phenomenology still looks similar, so the real explanation must go deeper than external pain alone.
One student tentatively suggests logic is tied to ratiocination while imagination allows different people to generate different possibilities beyond strict rational procedure.
Jiang proposes that people who were physically different may have been seen as spiritually special, possibly suited to shamanic roles because they perceived the world differently and could devote time to religious practice.
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"So, but as you can see, even though he was my mentor at Yale, and we're still very good friends, he and I see..."
"words okay so let's figure out what's happening here visually okay so dante and virgil are walking and they're trying to get to the..."
"Okay. Exactly. But I don't understand why the people in hell can't be like, you know what? You just do this for 10,000 years..."
"I don't know. I'm going to try, but I might be very wrong. But I think that, like, logic is more, like, about ration,..."
"See what I mean? Okay, but what else can you do besides food? Why would they think he was a special person? What could..."
"And being a dwarf, it makes the most sense to be a shaman, not only because people think you're special, but because you can..."
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