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Jiang defines anti-Purgatory as the beach outside the mountain where late repenters must wait before they are allowed to begin the formal cleansing terraces.
Belacqua's speech states that late repentance means waiting outside the gate for as long as one delayed, unless living prayers shorten the sentence.
"of purgatory okay so purgatory is a mountain in order to cleanse yourself you climb up this mountain in each terrace of the mountain..."
"voice nearby was heard to say perhaps you will have need to sit before you reach that point hearing that voice both of us..."
"was quickening my breath somewhat did not prevent my going to him and when i had reached him scarcely lifting up his head he..."
"heart that lives in grace what use are other prayers ignored by heaven and now the poet climbed ahead before me and said it's..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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