In the Canto 15 passage, the angelic brightness functions as a purifying ascent marker by removing another P from Dante's forehead and making the climb easier.
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"As many as the hours in which the sphere that's always playing like a child appears from day break to the end of the..."
"So did it seem to me that I had been struck there by light reflected facing me at which my eyes turned elsewhere rapidly...."
"So what's happening is that now and then Donnie is getting blinded. Why? Because an angel that is so radiant is coming down and..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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