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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "okay yes yes uh I think it's the negative aspects of Dante that he collected in hell so it's still like his you know..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "okay yes yes uh I think it's the negative aspects of Dante that he collected in hell so it's still like his you know..."
One student moralizes the shadow as residue from Dante's uncleanness in hell, suggesting that the living pilgrim still carries something negative forward into purification.
A student reads the washing command as proof that Cato sees Virgil as saturated with hell, while Jiang grants a metaphorical version of that reading: Dante must begin cleansing himself of Virgil's lies.
"okay yes yes uh I think it's the negative aspects of Dante that he collected in hell so it's still like his you know..."
"um virgil yes um in in line 95 96 he he tells him um that his face and his body should be washed of..."
"yeah this is a really really interesting reading right so literally just means dante has been through hell and his face is dirty right..."
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.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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