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The canto stages an interpretive mistake in which distance makes giants look like city towers until Virgil corrects Dante's faulty image.
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Jiang argues that Beatrice is a real person for Dante even though they spent little time together and she died young, because imagination and love can sustain genuine communication beyond physical proximity.
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Jiang says the earlier three-mirror candle experiment established that brightness remains equally bright regardless of distance even if apparent size changes.
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In the quoted vision, the circles farther from the One appear wider and move with lesser speed.
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Jiang, citing Kant, defines space as sensation made possible by the five senses, so distance is conceivable only for embodied beings.
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The mirror experiment is designed to show that a more distant reflected image may be smaller but does not become less bright simply because it is farther away.
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Jiang says the mirror experiment shows that even if one mirror is vastly farther away, its reflected image would still be equally bright, so depth alone cannot explain the moon's darker regions.
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"Canto 31. The very tongue that first had wounded me, sending the color up in both my cheeks, was then to cure me with..."
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"...have reached that place, you shall see clearly how much the distance has deceived your sense, and therefore let this spur you on your..."
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"My error fled from me, my terror grew. For as on its ground wall Monte Rigoni is crowned with towers, so they're towered here..."
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"Yeah. Okay. So. You see. What's happened. Is that. He could only write this poem. Because of his love. For his children. Right. This...."
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"You can. Be. In communication with her. Across dimensions. Okay. And that's what drives the poetry. All right. That's why. Love has to be..."
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"...to Dante that brightness is just as bright no matter the distance, right? And so they construct this experiment where there are three mirrors,..."
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"...eighth and ninth were wider still, and each, even as greater distance lay between it and the first ring, moved with lesser speed. E..."
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"ad un altro circuncinto, e quel dal terzo, e il terzo poi dal quarto, dal quinto il quarto, e poi dal sesto il quinto...."
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"...is sensation. Sensation is made possible for the five senses. Okay? Distance is because you have a body. If you didn't have a body,..."
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"Taking three mirrors, place a pair of them at equal distance from you. Set the third midway between those two, but farther back. Then,..."
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"Okay. So do you guys understand the experiment? Okay? What I'm doing is I am putting mirrors in front of me. Okay? Maybe 10..."
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"...equal to its angle of descent. And to each. Side the distance from the vertical is equal as science and experiment have shown."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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