Jiang's culminating description of what Divine Comedy is and what genuinely great literature does.
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portal into the mind of God
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"...so the vine economy is first and foremost a portal into the mind of God okay and that's what a great book is all..."
"...you have Dante, okay? Dante uses language as a portal into the mind of God. What is the universe?"
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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