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Jiang reemphasizes that Beatrice is not a fully conceived person for Dante because their acquaintance was limited, she married someone else, and she died young in childbirth.
A student argues that Beatrice may remain perfect in Dante's mind because death freezes her image at an untouchable youthful age.
"Right, okay, so yeah, so Dante would demand that you leave your ego, that you transcend your ego. Okay? It doesn't mean you abandon..."
"I think two things are happening. The first thing is that this is a very contemporary take, but the thing we cannot get is..."
"No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that his image of her is frozen and that she cannot do anything to..."
"...to preface this, I am neo -pagan. So some of my idealizations of paganism might be, well, idealized. But what I think is, the..."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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