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Jiang says Purgatory is comparatively easy to enter but very hard to advance through.
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Jiang reads the angelic gate as generous on the front end but demanding afterward: entry is open to many, yet once inside, doubt and backward-looking are intolerable.
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"one way a little way is if you do an act of charity an act of goodness in your life once okay that goes..."
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"...appropriately in the lock, he said to us, this gate of entry does not open. One is more precious, but the other needs much..."
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"Okay, so the angel is saying two things about this gate, okay? The first thing about this gate is that they're generous. They will..."
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"...dew, no hoarfrost falls here any higher than the stairs of entry with their three brief steps. Neither thick clouds nor thin appear nor..."
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"...that he Lincoln was ambitious, confessed it in an interesting notebook entry to himself, and in other places less openly. I thought ambition was..."
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"...point out the path that leads more quickly to the true entry point of purgatory"
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"...swords that now watch over the Garden of Eden to bar entry. Um, what are the two angels doing here? Did you guys spot..."
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"...It's open now. The angels are there not to bar our entry. They're there to bar the snake from entry. We're allowed to go..."
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"...enclosing it. See where that wall is breached, the point of entry. Before at dawn that ushers in the day when soul was sleeping..."
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"...time as he had spent alive, do tell me how Salvani's entry here has been allowed. When he was living in his greatest glory,..."
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"So last night I was reading a journal entry by Manly P. Hall."
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"...I have been rebellious to his law, will not allow me entry to his city. He governs everywhere, but rules from there. There is..."
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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 a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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