The Ganymede story functions here as the creepy abduction template that helps explain why Dante's transporting dream feels fearful.
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Ganymede
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "No, I would feel fear. Why would I feel fear?"
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Jiang insists the dominant emotion of the Ganymede-like dream is fear rather than gratitude or comfort, because the event reads as an omen that Dante is in trouble.
Jiang endorses the student's sense that the Ganymede story is creepy and coercive, using its abduction logic to explain why Dante experiences Lucia's help as unsettling rather than soothing.
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"Um, because the story of Ganymede is kind of creepy to me, because he was like, kidnapped by the eagle. Yes. And he became..."
"Yeah, that's exactly right. The dream is making him afraid, right? Do you understand? The dream isn't like, oh wow, Lucia came to like,..."
"And I seemed to be there where Ganymede deserted his own family when he was snatched up for the high consistory. Within myself I..."
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