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Jiang treats the punishment of grafters as unusual because it includes repeated apparent opportunities for escape rather than static confinement.
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Escape
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...unusual punishment because it gives the people here an opportunity to escape right it's not like they're locked in place it's like you know..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...unusual punishment because it gives the people here an opportunity to escape right it's not like they're locked in place it's like you know..."
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Jiang says the punishment fits because grafters repeatedly choose the worse outcome, preferring another impossible try at escape over accepting the lesser pain already assigned to them.
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The canto resolves hell not with a dramatic duel but with Virgil using Lucifer's body as a ladder past the world's center and out toward the stars.
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Cato's first speech casts hell as an eternal prison and treats Virgil and Dante as people who somehow escaped it, which immediately makes Cato sound like an authority on a realm he should not have left.
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Jiang says the irony in Cato's speech is that he asks how anyone escaped the eternal prison even though his own presence in Purgatory means he somehow escaped it too.
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Jiang says Piccarda's limitation is a failure of fidelity: if she had really wanted escape, an idea would have arrived and the universe would have opened the way.
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Jiang says the larger lesson of the Piccarda scenario is that where there is real will, there is always some way through the situation even if the exact tactic is hypothetical.
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Cato's first question is whether Dante and Virgil's escape from hell breaks the laws of the universe.
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"...unusual punishment because it gives the people here an opportunity to escape right it's not like they're locked in place it's like you know..."
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"...in the boy link pitch like that kind of sucks they escape and they're caught by demons who do what to them these demons..."
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"...but they can't help themselves they're like no i have to escape like i'll get away right but like we know for a fact..."
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"pieces then they resurrect in in the boiling pitch then they do it again and then something happens they do it again this happens..."
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"He took fast hold upon the shaggy flanks and then descended, down from tuft to tuft between the tangled hair and icy crust. When..."
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"It is discovered by ear. There is a sounding stream that flows along the hollow of a rock eroded by winding waters, and the..."
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"...Who are you? Who against the hidden river were able to escape the eternal prison? He said, moving those venerable plumes. Who was your..."
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"...he say in the speech? That's ironic. Well, you're able to escape. Yeah. Like, how did you get here? It's like, well, okay, Kato,..."
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"...just she was not faithful enough if you really want to escape then an idea would have come into your mind to show you..."
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"he has to go home now you understand it's like you can't deal with this crap right but you see what's happened just the..."
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"back home i think okay well imagine two situations the first situation is you go back to the duke and says your sister's crazy..."
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"So again, this is Cato, okay? And again, Cato is the guardian of Purgatory. So he sees Dante and Virgil emerge. He's like, what..."
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