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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.
"CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: Oh, good Apollo, for this final task, make me the vessel of your excellence, which you, to merit your love..."
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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