Jiang insists the correct answer is concrete: Dante is excited because he literally sees another shadow rather than just abstractly realizing that Purgatory is real.
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Literal seeing
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And I, Lord, let us move ahead more quickly. For now I am less weary than before. And you can see the slope now..."
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"And I, Lord, let us move ahead more quickly. For now I am less weary than before. And you can see the slope now..."
"What does he see? Is it that purgatory is real to him now? No, no. What did he like literally see right now? Another..."
"He sees a shadow and he's really happy about it. Why?"
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.
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