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Jiang says the mirrored flame image is a major callback that Dante will use again at the very end as a metaphor for God.
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Jiang says the mirrored flame from that experiment becomes Dante's metaphor for God at the end of the Divine Comedy.
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Jiang says Dante is not better than God, but his imagination lets him do something God cannot do, which is why the ending of the Comedy is so shocking.
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Jiang treats the presence of humanity inside God as the central paradox of the poem's ending and says Dante ends with a question rather than a final discursive answer.
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Jiang rejects the view that the Aeneid's abrupt ending proves it unfinished; he argues the ending works because it completes Aeneas' character transformation.
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Jiang leaves the audience with the assurance that God is watching, God loves human beings, and events will work out in the end.
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"...before? A mirrored flame. This is actually very important for the ending, okay? So I draw your attention to this. A mirrored flame. A..."
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"Exactly, okay, so do you guys remember where Patrice is trying to prove to Dante that brightness is just as bright no matter the..."
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"...okay does that make sense all right yeah uh like the ending is just so shocking so weird it and again like i hate..."
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"This is the greatest paradox in the universe. Why are we inside God? Why? My own wings are far too weak for that, but..."
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"Yeah, so I'll leave you with this comment that I think is very important. Whatever happens, you have to spare. God is watching and..."
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"...was able to finish the Aeneid. And the argument is, the ending is too abrupt and therefore Virgil couldn't have finished the Aeneid. Okay?..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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