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Jiang says Virgil appears able to move through and govern hell's punishments, including the placement of Brutus and Cassius under Lucifer, which intensifies suspicion about hell's structure.
Jiang tells the class to keep asking why Virgil is not punished for his crimes and why hell is structured this way, treating the imbalance as a deliberate interpretive problem.
Canto 11 divides the lower hell into circles of violence and fraud, and Virgil states that fraud is punished lower because it is peculiarly human and more hateful to God.
"Yeah. Okay. So that's not the answer. Okay. It's possible, right? But again, this is raising a paradox, which is like, why is sign..."
"he's angry because he doesn't want to admit it. Right. Okay. So again, this could all, this creates all these paradoxes here. And so..."
"Conte 11. Along the upper rim of a high bank formed by a ring of massive broken boulders. We came above a crowd more..."
"Learn now the how and why of their confinement. A very malice that earns hate in heaven, injustice is the end. And each such..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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