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He glosses Lucifer at the bottom of hell as a machine that has lost consciousness because it has lost connection to universal consciousness.
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Lucifer
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diagnosis
Jiang says the prior day's imaginative speculation about Virgil as Lucifer or Beatrice bargaining him out of torment was exciting but not actually appropriate to Dante's conception of the universe.
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Jiang accepts the idea that Dante may be competing with Ovid and echoing visionary scriptural writing while using metamorphosis to make the approach to Lucifer feel like horror.
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Jiang says Lucifer will prove not to be the straightforward king of hell that readers expect.
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Jiang identifies temptation as Satan's defining function and imagines Lucifer confronting Dante with substitutes for Beatrice such as beauty, riches, and worldly dominion.
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The class links Lucifer to contractual soul-deals and to a permanently tethered condition in which he offers others upward escape while being unable to ascend himself.
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A student proposes that a modern Satan would look like an AI-generated ideal of maximum attractiveness.
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Jiang argues that Satan must be beautiful, princely, and handsome because temptation works through desirability, and Christian tradition imagines Lucifer as the most beautiful of angels before the fall.
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"...um so remember how how in hell the lowest level is lucifer right and he's become a machine so he's lost all consciousness because..."
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"...For example, we speculated as to if Virgil was in fact Lucifer, if in fact he was master of Hell, and why that's the..."
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"Yeah, that's a very interesting idea, right? Because there are certain poets that Dante admires. Virgil is definitely among the top, but there's also..."
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"And also in the Bible, in the book of Revelations, which is the last book of the Bible, John wrote a lot of visions..."
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"Excellent. Okay, right. So we're approaching Lucifer, right? We're approaching the inner core of Lucifer. And maybe what he's trying to do is convey..."
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"...this raging fire as we would expect. We will also meet Lucifer. And you would think that Lucifer is the king of hell. But..."
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"Well, our initial big question is, is he tempting still? Or is he pitiful? Exactly, okay?"
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"So the big question is temptation, because that is what Satan does, right? He is going to meet Dante and say to Dante, I..."
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"Yes? Maybe try to sign a contract, because the devil and the demon, they always want to sign a contract with you. Exactly, yes...."
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"Right? For your soul, right? And this is the plot, of course, for Faust. And this is a very common thing. Yes?"
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"Well, we have to show him tethered in some way. Where he is selling a path upwards to all the people he's giving deals..."
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"An AI character. Most handsome person possible as decreed by AI."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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