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Jiang generalizes from Forese that the prayers of a particularly virtuous loved one can materially change the speed of a soul’s purification.
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Intercession
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The specific soul from Fano asks Dante to carry news back to his homeland so fair prayers can purge him, making intercession the practical mechanism of his request.
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Jiang restates Dante's difficulty as a conflict between non-transactional divine justice and the apparent fact that prayers do reduce time in Purgatory.
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A student defense Jiang accepts as one valid possibility is that Dante reaches the gate through the prayers of Lucia, Rachel, Ruth, and Beatrice, so the abrupt transport suits the poem's cosmology of intercession.
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Jiang says time in Purgatory can be shortened by the prayers of living people, which links Manfred back to the wider heavenly economy of intercession.
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"So, Darnay meets his childhood best friend, and he's ecstatic to see Forese again, right? But he's confused. And he asks Forese, I thought..."
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"not curb your will thus i who speak alone before the others beseech you if you ever see the land that lies between romania..."
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"mud the reeds entangled me i fell and there i saw a pool pour from my veins from on the ground wait sorry so..."
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"and and what will they do with their hope pray really hard for them yeah it's it's making people live a life of faith..."
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"sorry i've got okay all right so dante here and knows that if you pray for a loved one enough, this is going to..."
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"I'm like, okay, an angel took me to the gate of purgatory, that's it. Okay, so C minus for you, Dante, which is basically..."
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"With the divine plan or his cosmology, that you cannot enter purgatory without the love or support or the angel prayer of your family..."
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"Yeah. So God is all forgiving. Okay. You have a direct connection to God and, if you get executed by the church that's bad..."
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"whether the prayer is like a good prayer or just like an off -handed prayer i think there's like a"
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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