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Cato's name for hell, used in a way that underscores the impossibility of anyone escaping it.
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eternal prison
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you? Who against the hidden river were able to escape the eternal prison? He said, moving those venerable plumes. Who was your guide? What..."
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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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"...you? Who against the hidden river were able to escape the eternal prison? He said, moving those venerable plumes. Who was your guide? What..."
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"...of ironic. All right. How are you able to escape the eternal prison? The eternal prison is like, no one can escape it, but..."
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"...you who, against a hidden river, were able to escape the eternal prison? He said, moving those venerable plumes. Who is your guide? What..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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