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Jiang interprets the Inferno opening as Dante in middle age, lost in a shadowed forest and undergoing a midlife crisis before Virgil appears.
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Midlife crisis
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"...no idea where he's going okay so he's basically in a midlife crisis and when he walks around he sees these beasts right and..."
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"...in the woods and it's a symbol or metaphor for his midlife crisis he doesn't know where he's going uh he's confused by the..."
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"...did he was so close to it he was facing a midlife crisis as I've told you I was sent to him for his..."
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"...to seek truth, to seek God. He starts off with a midlife crisis. And so, he has a guy named Virgil who takes him..."
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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