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Jiang accepts the student comparison between Inferno and Journey to the West at the narrative level but notes that Dante's cosmos does not permit the same kind of interchangeable divine protection across beings.
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Journey to the West
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"...reminds me a lot of uh the chinese uh novel journey to the west in the way that it's first of all they're both..."
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"yeah you know you're absolutely right in that uh inferno it there's much more of a narrative angle to it right whereas in paradise..."
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"very much like some kind of uh role -playing philosophy uh yes yeah but there's a very big difference is uh the monster in..."
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"...San Guan Yan Yi Romance of Three Kingdoms COG Right? Journey to the West Shui Hu Zhuan Right? Bandits of the Water Margin If..."
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"...I really only know one Chinese myth and it's the journey to the West story, The Monkey God, because there's a video game based..."
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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