Jiang develops the heaviness analogy by saying sin can keep reproducing itself until it becomes a giant.
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Giant
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Jiang says the giant scene is the first time the lecture encounters a non-human being punished in Inferno, and the striking feature of that punishment is the giant's apathy rather than fear.
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"...really interesting. Exactly. Right? So yeah, the angels are light. The giants are obviously heavy. Right? And maybe that's a metaphor for sin, where..."
"...for the first time, we are meeting a non -human, a giant who's being punished. And what is his reaction to being punished? And..."
"...doesn't care, right? So what's the message here? You have a giant who's like, ah, whatever, man. Like missiles are being rained on me,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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