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The greedy rehearse praise-worthy examples by day and anti-examples by night, cycling through figures like Pygmalion, Midas, Achan, Sapphira, and Crassus as moral pedagogy before the mountain trembles.
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Earthquake
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The quake and Gloria are presented as collective signs that provoke Dante's strongest desire yet to understand what is happening on the mountain.
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Jiang reads Hugh Capet's self-condemnation as symmetrical with Paradise's Peter attacking the Church and says the mountain quakes whenever a soul completes purgation and is released toward heaven.
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Statius says purgatory above the gate is exempt from ordinary weather and geological disturbance, and that the mountain trembles only when a soul feels itself cleansed enough to rise higher.
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Jiang compares imperial decline to an earthquake: it cannot be stopped, only anticipated and prepared for.
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Jiang explains the next Purgatorio scene as an ascent checkpoint: when a soul finally clears all seven terraces, the mountain shakes like an earthquake to announce that the soul is about to ascend.
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Jiang glosses the mountain-shake as a visible sign that a soul has completed cleansing and is ready to move upward.
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Statius's release is marked by an earthquake because the mountain celebrates when a soul has cleansed itself enough to enter heaven.
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"I see him mocked a second time. I see the vinegar and gall renewed and he slain between two slaves who are still alive...."
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"And each of us recalls the foolish Achan, how he had robbed the spoils so that the anger of Joshua still seems to sting..."
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"Delos had surely not been buffeted so hard before Latona planted there the nest in which to bear the sky's two eyes. Then such..."
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"We were so rushed, nor by myself could I discern the cause, so timid, pensive, I pursued my way."
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"...point is like, as they're climbing up the mountain, there's an earthquake, it shakes. The reason why the mountain does that is whenever a..."
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"The other shade began. The sanctity of these slopes does not suffer anything that's without order or uncustomary. This place is free from every..."
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"Saying that empires decline, is the same as saying that an earthquake is coming, okay? Can you stop an earthquake coming? No. You just..."
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"Natural thirst that can never be quenched except by water that gives grace. The drought, the simple woman of Samaria sought, tormented me. Haste..."
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"...complete the mission, the entire mountain shakes. Okay. And there's an earthquake to signal that a soul has been cleansed of all sins. It's..."
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"Okay, so the mountain only moves if a soul has been cleansed, okay?"
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"...free will for a better threshold. Thus, you have heard the earthquake and the pious spirits throughout the mountain as they praise the Lord,..."
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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 farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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