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Jiang says the Divine Comedy is deliberately symmetrical: Purgatory is introduced by an invocation to the muses, while Paradise escalates the need for inspiration to Apollo and the muses together.
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Muses
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...ascent to heaven. But here, since I am yours, Oh, holy muses made this poem rise again from hell's dead realm and make hell...."
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A student makes the implied reference explicit by asking whether the strange plural 'gods' points back to Dante's earlier invocations of Apollo and the Muses.
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"...ascent to heaven. But here, since I am yours, Oh, holy muses made this poem rise again from hell's dead realm and make hell...."
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"...want to write about purgatory. I now sing about purgatory. So muses come and give me inspiration. Okay. In paradise. When he was running..."
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"...contos like dante prayed to for example the apollo and the muses"
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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