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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "of purgatory okay so purgatory is a mountain in order to cleanse yourself you climb up this mountain in each terrace of the mountain..."
Jiang defines anti-Purgatory as the beach outside the mountain where late repenters must wait before they are allowed to begin the formal cleansing terraces.
The quoted scene defines the upper mountain as a realm not governed by ordinary perturbations; its only true tremor comes when a soul has been cleansed enough to rise.
Jiang describes purgatory as a mountain that must be climbed toward heaven and as an enclosed place shielded from waves and wind.
"of purgatory okay so purgatory is a mountain in order to cleanse yourself you climb up this mountain in each terrace of the mountain..."
"His question threaded. So the needle's eye of my desire, that just the hope alone of knowing left my thirst more satisfied. The other..."
"For it only trembles here when some soul feels it's cleansed, so that it rises or stirs to climb on high, and that shall..."
"As you say, there is no need of flattery. It is enough, indeed, to ask me for her sake. Go then, but first wind..."
"...okay? And what Cato is saying is that purgatory is a mountain. They have to climb the mountain to reach heaven. But purgatory is..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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