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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we've uncovered the truth. I want to go over into the limitations of a discussion. The first limitation, as you can appreciate, is this..."
Jiang says reading Divine Comedy in English is a severe limitation because it prevents true literary analysis of diction, syntax, sound, and poetic form, so fully deciphering Dante requires reading him in Italian for oneself.
"...we've uncovered the truth. I want to go over into the limitations of a discussion. The first limitation, as you can appreciate, is this..."
"This is a severe limitation because it prevents us from doing literary analysis. We can't study the words. We can't study the diction, the..."
"Yeah, and that would be great, but the point I'm trying to make is, unless you read it in Italian by yourself, you'll never..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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