The student's explanation is that entering heaven makes Dante a new man, so he must die to his old self in order to attain a new form of pure existence.
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"...imperialism it's destroying all that we've known before to create a new man an economic man only based on self -interest. It's even destroying..."
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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