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A recurring Dante image Jiang identifies as a metaphor for God and a crucial callback near the poem's ending. Jiang's name for the earlier mirror-and-candle image that returns here as a governing metaphor for God at the poem's end.
Jiang says the mirrored flame image is a major callback that Dante will use again at the very end as a metaphor for God.
Jiang says the mirrored flame from that experiment becomes Dante's metaphor for God at the end of the Divine Comedy.
"...life of miserable mortals. Then, just as one who sees a mirrored flame, its double candle stands behind his back, even before he thought..."
"...This is important, okay? Does anyone remember where we saw a mirrored flame before? A mirrored flame. This is actually very important for the..."
"...use at the very end of the Divine Comedy, okay? The mirrored flame. Okay, keep on going."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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