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The sewn eyelids of the envious function as an image of forced inwardness: those who lived by looking sideways at others are deprived of sight in order to be remade.
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Eyes
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Jiang accepts that the immediate purpose of shutting the envious person's eyes is to stop obsessive comparison with others.
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Jiang says the sensory world is an imaginative illusion: our eyes show a made-up order that can both reveal and distort truth.
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Jiang glosses Paul's version of faith as trust in a divine plan and miracles that cannot be seen directly, a posture of trusting the heart rather than the eyes.
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"So did the blind who have to beg appear on pardoned days to plead for what they need, each bending his head back and..."
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"...And to my other side were the devout shades, through their eyes sewn so atrociously, the spirit's force, the tears that bathed their cheeks...."
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"...it that in the Terrace of Envy their punishment is their eyes are shut? Shown shut. What would that be the case?"
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"So they don't constantly look at others and compare themselves to others?"
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"...home a world of illusion okay everyone can see with our eyes it's all just things we made up uh it's all an illusion..."
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"...happen that's what faith is you just you don't trust your eyes you trust your heart and then dante says that faith is what..."
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"...inward and i'm always with you and then i opened my eye and woke up and the first thought that came to my mind..."
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"...punishment is to be blindfolded to to be blind basically your eyes are shut and you have to hold on to other people in..."
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"...been struck there by light reflected facing me at which my eyes turned elsewhere rapidly. Kind father, what is that against which I have..."
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"...saw that I had reached another circle, and my desire in eyes made me peace. There I see him suddenly to be caught up..."
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"...now, weighed down by death, sink to the ground, although his eyes were bent, but were always on heaven. They were heaven's gates, praying..."
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"...kind of start where he's saying, I'm trying to cover my eyes, but the light's bouncing in no matter what. So it's kind of..."
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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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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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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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