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Jiang frames the terrace of lust as the final version of the same question: what kind of fire purifies desire rather than merely punishing it?
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Fire
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definition
Jiang instead says purgatorial fire hardens what is soft or inconsistent, making the soul firm in faith, commitment, and devotion.
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Jiang says Beatrice's model means that as long as the will remains intact it behaves like fire ascending, and no force on earth can finally stop it.
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Virgil's definition, as read in class, says love is the soul's natural propulsion toward what pleases it, just as fire rises toward its proper sphere.
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The poet's truth-telling is compulsory: a fire burns inside the poet and must be released or the poet will be unable to sleep, eat, breathe, or survive the pressure.
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"...the terrace side there whirls a wind that pushes back the fire and limits it. Thus on the open side, proceeding one by one,..."
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"...the final terrace, which is the Terrace of Lust. What would fire? Like stepping through fire help cure you of lust?"
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"...metaphor. Okay. Why do you have to put your ceramics into fire? To harden it, right? Inhale. Inhale. Inferno. How are the lustful being..."
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"...it resists, is never spent, but acts as nature acts when fire ascends, though force a thousand times tries to compel."
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"...As long as you have the will, it becomes like a fire ascending, and there's no force in on our planet that can stop..."
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"...through beauty. Then, just as flames ascend because the form of fire was fashioned to fly upward toward the stuff of its own sphere,..."
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"...what they do because they have no choice. Okay? There's a fire burning in you. You have to let it out. Otherwise, you can't..."
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"Do you guys remember? Yes? I remember a lot of fire in the imagery. Like, there's just a lot of burning. So the purging..."
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"...loves us, earns our condemnation? Next I saw people whom the fire -wrath had kindled, so they stoned at youth, and kept on shouting..."
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"...through beauty. Then just as flames ascend because the form of fire was fashioned to fly upward toward the stuff of its own sphere..."
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"...than god and it's virgil right because virgil is the holy fire and he says you know what if i had a chance to..."
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"...okay all right so remember the poets are channeling the divine fire the holy fire okay and the poetry is meant to um capture..."
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