Glossary
Jiang's intensified term for a work or dead author entering a reader so forcefully that it feels physically directive rather than merely symbolic.
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possession
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...like i'm right when i'm writing it feels like someone's taking possession of me and i'm just writing things and then i'm writing about..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...like i'm right when i'm writing it feels like someone's taking possession of me and i'm just writing things and then i'm writing about..."
Key Notes
Glossary
The process of allowing Jesus or great authors to enter and transform consciousness.
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Jiang says his own writing process arrives as visions that haunt him until written, and while writing he feels possessed rather than in full authorial control.
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diagnosis
Jiang says real writing is channeling rather than creation, and the better the writer, the more writing feels like possession, agony, and loss of control.
model
Jiang's modern analogy presents Virgil's conception of love as the soul expanding outward to possess, dominate, or control another beautiful soul.
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Jiang restates Virgil's model bluntly: to love beautiful someone in this frame is to want to have them, which collapses love into lust and possession.
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Jiang says Virgil's flower-and-diamond pursuit is finally aimed at sex, which for Virgil is what love cashes out to.
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A student adds that Beatrice asking Virgil to identify the siren suggests Virgilian possessive love is what beautifies the malformed woman by imagining possession.
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diagnosis
Jiang agrees with the occult reading that the frozen depths of hell signal a collapse of will and selfhood rather than mere low temperature.
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Jiang says occultists often read Dante literally as a visionary of the afterlife and use him to think about demonic and angelic possession.
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"...like i'm right when i'm writing it feels like someone's taking possession of me and i'm just writing things and then i'm writing about..."
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"exactly i mean this is a universal truth okay it's something that i've experienced in my life where um when i write novels like..."
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"he's not a very good writer but he is just so joyful and enthusiastic and happy about writing he says he wants to write..."
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"You, you wanna go say hi, like, Hey, how are you? You sit down beside her. Okay. And, um, what, what happens next? Okay...."
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"What do you like to do? Okay. Right. So what Virgil is saying is that's what love is. Love is basically lust. You see..."
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"Thanks, Crystal. Okay. All right. What does Virgil want at the end of the day when he's sending her flowers and buying her a..."
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"Yes. Um, I think it's quite telling that Beatrice asked Virgil to identify the siren because it's kind of the love that we were..."
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"And it's just his commentary on the Divine Comedy. And what I thought was interesting relating to the question we discussed towards the end..."
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"...how they've put themselves in that position, that deep level of possession, which is something that they're really concerned about, right? Is it possible..."
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"...on where um if you if you think that the magnetic possession is possible right then you also have to think that inter -dimensional..."
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"is suggesting here where if you think about it okay the person commits uh a sin of lust and now he's in the plane..."
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"you think demonic possession or energetic possession isn't real any thoughts any comments and again there are no right answers but i'm curious as..."
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