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The mythic mountain of poetic inspiration whose two peaks signal the full range of help Dante invokes while reconstructing Paradise.
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Parnassus
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Go on. CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: Until this point, one of Parnassus' peaks sufficed for me. But now I face the test, the agon..."
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The invocation to Apollo and both peaks of Parnassus frames Paradise as a higher poetic test that requires greater excellence than the earlier stages of the journey.
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"...Go on. CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: Until this point, one of Parnassus' peaks sufficed for me. But now I face the test, the agon..."
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"...but all the muses. Who live on the two mountains of Parnassus, right? So not just Apollo, but every possible source of inspiration he..."
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"...you were the first to send me to drink with him Parnassus' caves, and you, the first who, after God, enlightened me. He did..."
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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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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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