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Jiang accepts the idea that Dante may be competing with Ovid and echoing visionary scriptural writing while using metamorphosis to make the approach to Lucifer feel like horror.
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Jiang describes the metamorphosis sequence as functioning like a horror movie because the possible loss of human form is one of the deepest available fears.
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"Yeah, that's a very interesting idea, right? Because there are certain poets that Dante admires. Virgil is definitely among the top, but there's also..."
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"And also in the Bible, in the book of Revelations, which is the last book of the Bible, John wrote a lot of visions..."
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"...hard not to be afraid, right? This is almost like a horror movie now, right? This metamorphosis. I'm not sure if you've seen the..."
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"...donny hears all this and he only feel a sense of horror at these ideas that are being articulated and he has to ask..."
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"...other in during the Trojan War Odysseus becomes traumatized by the horrors of war remember how he constructs the Trojan horse but and he..."
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"global economy we keep hearing the horror stories about fertilizer disruptions famine food shortages everything else it could become as a result of the..."
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"...and barely raise the peep, if any, when the kind of horrors of the war unfolded, I think he's now attained a status not..."
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"...fame in war, he became traumatized with PTSD. He saw the horrors of war where innocent people, innocent families were destroyed because of war,..."
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"...the rest of us that are just watching this war in horror?"
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"then, for the first time, the full horror came home to me at last, I froze, the thought of my own dear father filled..."
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"...touch it sang out clear and sharp as a swallow's cry horror swept through the suitors faces blanching white and Zeus cracked the sky..."
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"...sense guys all right even crime is this arm of habits horror and all its contagion by being represented as a fatal consequence of..."
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