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Jiang answers the fictional-character objection by saying fiction does not invent unreal beings but summons real persons from an infinite universe, a view the class links to archetypes.
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Infinite universe
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "this uh historical figures into your mind um it's like a seance right uh but what it but can you like summon this like..."
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"this uh historical figures into your mind um it's like a seance right uh but what it but can you like summon this like..."
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"this is an infinite universe right so there's infinite people so so when you're writing fiction all you're doing is you're summoning someone from..."
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"through this lens like the fictional characters uh are basically real characters like they're not really that's right like we're all sort of part..."
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"...the reason why he does that is to make divine comedy infinite universe, where you can go back and explore forever. And the third..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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