Jiang glosses this poetic phrase as the sun, identified here with Apollo as the source Dante seeks to reach.
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lantern of the world
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Jiang interprets the poem's 'lantern of the world' as the sun, identifies that sun with Apollo, and says Apollo can reach human beings through different paths.
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"The lantern of the world is the sun, right? Which is Apollo. And Apollo can reach you through different paths. And he's trying to..."
"That he may answer. The lantern of the world approaches mortals by very paths."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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