The sewn eyelids of the envious function as an image of forced inwardness: those who lived by looking sideways at others are deprived of sight in order to be remade.
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Inwardness
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Jiang claims homosexuality and incest both represent inward churning and extreme narcissism rather than outward social obligation.
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"So did the blind who have to beg appear on pardoned days to plead for what they need, each bending his head back and..."
"Virgil was to my right, along the outside, nearer the terrace edge, no parapet was there to keep a man from falling off. And..."
"Okay. That's what Don is saying here. He's saying that homosexuality, like incest, it represents a, like an inward churning, right? A narcissism that..."
"...-indulgent uh so what separates uh a artist like a sacred inwardness"
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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