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Jiang says Inferno is prophecy and political criticism, Paradiso is vision and revelation, and Purgatorio therefore has to function as pilgrimage or journey away from Virgil and toward Beatrice.
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Pilgrimage
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Jiang frames the Virgil-Dante relation here as father and son, with Dante still needing Virgil to lift him from hell and through the early climb of Purgatory.
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A student links Purgatory to real pilgrimage routes where bodily ascent and prayer become a form of purification.
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In Paradise, Dante is a pilgrim traveling through the universe toward God with Beatrice, his long-lost love, as guide.
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"...of italy okay so what purgatory has to be is a pilgrimage or"
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"a journey okay it's gonna be literally a journey away from virgil and into beatrice away from hell and into heaven okay and this..."
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"...lift him up to purgatory okay and again this is a pilgrimage this is a journey where donnie has to learn to become independent..."
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"...not a shame non - Cover which is one of the pilgrimage roads by unesco saying that it's a privilege so you go through..."
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"Yeah, that's very interesting. So what you're saying is that heaven is individualized, meaning that whatever you perceive it is, it becomes. Okay, that's..."
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"No one else has imagined heaven the way that Dante has. And no one will probably ever imagine the way that he has. Okay...."
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"...speak about Mecca and Umrah, which is where people make a pilgrimage in the desert, and they go and worship God. Whereas Coachella is..."
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"...okay? All right, so this is a map that shows the pilgrimages of Christians into the Holy Land, okay? And again, it's a source..."
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"...enjoyed on the city of God during the time of its pilgrimage in this world. And it receives particular emphasis in the character of..."
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"...So after that, what Christians have to do is make these pilgrimages to Jerusalem."
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"...Medina. This is called the Hijra in the Muslim tradition, the pilgrimage. And when he goes to Medina, he becomes the leader of the..."
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"...is, you must make something called the Hajj, which is a pilgrimage to the holy site in Mecca and perform rituals in Mecca. This..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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