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The Canto 17 reading presents imagination as something moved by heavenly light or divine will rather than by ordinary sensory input.
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Divine will
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Virgil tells Dante to hide and then confronts the demons by appealing to divine will and helpful fate rather than by sheer force.
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The Aeneid reverses the Odyssey because the gods no longer will the lovers' reunion; they will Aeneas and Creusa's separation for the sake of Rome.
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"Canto 17. Remember, reader? If you've ever been caught in the mountains by a mist through which you only saw as moles see through..."
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"At this my mind withdrew to the within to what imagining might bring. No thing that came from the without could enter in."
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"demons did the same as any cook who has his Urchins forced to meet with clicks deep down into the pot float then my..."
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"then decide if i'm to be hooked at this they howled let melakota go and one of them moved up the others died and..."
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"Again, this is very different from the Odyssey, where the Odyssey is really about a journey of two people, Penelope and Odysseus, to find..."
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"If Jupiter demands us to sacrifice ourselves, then we must do so, okay? And so, this reverses the Odyssey, right? Where the gods willed..."
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"...achieve a certain world that they believe um will reflect the divine will of god so um there's a news item where a commander..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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