Jiang says Dante makes Purgatory earth-like on purpose so readers can imagine themselves hiking, stargazing, and climbing with Dante and Virgil while still alive.
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Earth Like
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "art yes because you're grounding it in something more naturalistic and you're able to see yourself a little bit more and you're able to..."
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"art yes because you're grounding it in something more naturalistic and you're able to see yourself a little bit more and you're able to..."
"bit while you're alive in real life exactly you understand okay right so you can actually imagine yourself taking a hike and looking at..."
"...between people who seek like money without like looking at the earth like environmental so she creates division between people who believe in environment..."
"...we have a sun we have you know it's really like earth -like as opposed to"
"inferno right and he's trying to make it as earth -like as possible right by by by geolocating it and says like this is..."
"...in our Chinese culture there is a god who created the earth like his name is Pangu like there is this mythology of how..."
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