Jiang says the night stoppage is strange precisely because Purgatory is supposed to accelerate expiation, so the interruption demands a deeper psychological explanation.
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Night
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"...very particular particular rule to purgatory which is like once it's night you can't move anymore or you can't cross certain boundaries anymore okay..."
"...they're walking right and these souls are so excited that at night if they could they walk would walk as well and so they..."
"hey uh i had this weird dream last night okay uh so so in the dream like we were discussing you were like doing..."
"...of light that although late were bright and the light of night were dimmed and the light of night were bright but gradually smoke..."
"blackness of hell and of a night deprived of every planet under meager skies as overcast by clouds that sky can be had never..."
"...anger. Above us now, the final rays before the fall of night were raised to such a height that we could see the stars..."
"...in our direction just as of old ismanus and asapus at night along their banks saw crowds and clamor whenever thebans had to summon..."
"...looked at her and just as sun revives cold limbs that night made numb so did my gaze lose in her tongue and then..."
"...to our prayers as long as it is day. But when night falls, when we recite examples that are contrary, then we tell over..."
"...to reign with all the righteous, but since she who spends nights with him and night and day had not yet spun this spool..."
"...after god enlightened me you did as he who goes by night and carries the lamp behind him he's of no help to his..."
"...you. It is he who has led me through the deep night of the truly dead with this true flesh that follows after him...."
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