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The earlier ego-bound self that must die for Dante to enter heavenly existence as a new man.
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old self
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Maybe his old self or something that he used to."
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A student proposes that Dante's antagonist is his old self, the self he used to be before entering heaven.
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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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"Maybe his old self or something that he used to."
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"...new man. So that means he has to die to his old self to enter into this new form of pure existence."
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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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