Jiang reads the Dante-Virgil relation as if they had spent a lifetime together, making Virgil a best-friend presence rather than a textual construct.
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Jiang treats the Mona Lisa's tracking gaze as evidence of artistic aura: wherever the viewer stands, the painting keeps projecting a persistent presence that cannot simply be left behind.
Jiang distinguishes a detached architect God who designs the rules and stops caring from Dante's God, who remains with human beings and shows approval by shining light through them.
Jiang says the evolutionary picture under discussion treats the universe as independent of God, whereas Beatrice's account says God is always present through differentiated shining.
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"Okay. That's a very large explanation. I don't think that's, that's what's happening. I don't think he's creating Virgil. I think he's summoning Virgil...."
"Probably talking about the fact that wherever you are in the room she looks at you."
"It's really weird. Do you guys like experience it? Yeah. When you walk around her eyes follow you. They track you. It's really weird...."
"You really feel it because like wherever you are in the room the aura is here. And you can just like turn your back..."
"conception of god okay so there are you can say like god is an architect who designed the rules of the universe and no..."
"own game uh it's it's a rough metaphor yes but but yeah the idea is that um in evolution what they're saying is that..."
"...whom you mention as an example of the banished people whose presence would reproach the savage age? Either your speech deceives me or would..."
"...her to deny that there was another soul present in her presence. But I think that he doesn't want sex because I think it..."
"...brow returned to virgil humbly and clasped him where the lesser presence clasps he said a glory of the latins you through whom our..."
"...should have me see that creature who was once a handsome presence. He stepped aside and made me stop and said. Look, here is..."
"...made me so impatient to embrace them. Then I began, your presence in me, the state had fixed not scorn but sorrow in me,..."
"...threat of shame which makes a servant in his kind lord's presence brave. I settled down on those enormous shoulders, I wished to say,..."
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