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Jiang accepts the student's claim that Virgil can know the path because the poet carries a divine spark.
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Jiang resists the premise that Dante's questions prove ignorance; instead he treats guidance as a different function from raw knowledge.
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The student answer Jiang accepts says Virgil functions like an embodied inner voice that keeps Dante from collapsing the journey into prideful self-sufficiency.
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The Canto 16 transition places Dante in black smoke on the terrace of wrath, where blindness and dependence on guidance become central.
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Jiang says that once one connects to the divine through love, the divine sends messages that steer the person even if the person remains partly corrupted.
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Virgil explains that he can guide Dante only as far as his teaching reaches, because Dante's soul cannot yet ascend alone and Virgil himself remains excluded from blessed assembly.
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Jiang treats the end of Inferno as a shock reveal in which the apparent ruler, Lucifer, turns out not to be the true guiding force behind the journey.
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Jiang presents the opening problem as one where Dante cannot defeat the beasts directly and instead must take another route through hell.
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"So what's happening is that now and then Donnie is getting blinded. Why? Because an angel that is so radiant is coming down and..."
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"Yes, because he had the divine spark in him of the poet. That's right. And then he chose to pervert."
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"Okay. Let's think. Let's think about this. Okay. Why does he? So let's just assume Dante is a poet. He knows everything. What does..."
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"I think people do this for themselves. Like when you talk to yourself, it's similar to that where you need an outside other entity..."
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"outside itself and met the things outside it that are real i then could recognize my not false desires my guide on seeing me..."
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"sees with earthly earthly eyes which once the body stripped of soul lies dead can't see i ask so that your feet might find..."
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"could have avoided it of pure air and sight okay so we uh were in the terrace of law but um they're"
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"all so busy you don't have time to talk okay now we're moving up to the terrorist of rap and the name of the..."
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"Yes, exactly. Yes. Thank you. Okay. All right. But, but you see how, like, once you connect the vine, the vine will steer you..."
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"Canto 21. The natural thirst that never can be quenched except by water that gives grace, the drop that the simple woman of Samaria..."
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"If you observe the signs the angel traced upon this man, my teacher said, you'll see plainly he's meant to reign with all the..."
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