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Jiang corrects the student by saying Virgil is not literally the master of hell but a guide appointed by Beatrice who nevertheless knows hell intimately, which leaves the paradox intact.
Jiang speculates that Beatrice may have secured a special reprieve for Virgil because only someone who knows hell from the inside could guide Dante out of it.
"Um, okay. That's interesting. But, but, uh, the fact is that Virgil is not, not the guide of hell. He's got the guy to..."
"yeah that's a possibility do you guys understand that you understand that because beatrice has a problem right beatrice is like dante is lost..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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