Jiang identifies the first interior scene of purgatory as carved artworks of humility, making visual exemplars rather than abstract doctrine the pilgrim's first medicine.
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First terrace
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"so they are past the gates of purgatory, they're now inside purgatory proper, and what's the first thing that Dante sees? What's the first..."
"Right. And what are these rocks? What's inside these rocks? Carvings, okay? This is artwork. The first thing that Dante sees when he enters..."
"...go to count to 11. So we are now in the first terrace which is to purge you of pride. So you have to..."
"...in his own degree of suffering, but all exhausted, circling the first terrace, purging themselves of this world's scoriae."
"...in his own degree of suffering, but all exhausted, circling the first terrace, purging themselves of this world's scoriae. If there they pray on..."
"...has been indented. There, just as in the case of the first terrace, a second terrace runs around the slope, except that it describes..."
"Already I feel the heavy weights of the first terrace. And she, who then let you appear among us, if you believe you will..."
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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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