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Jiang approves the reading that meditating on the Aeneid’s mercy-failure can make a reader search for Christ as the answer to what the poem lacks.
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Jiang says the poem prepares readers to weep at the eventual separation between Dante and Virgil by steadily deepening their mutual affection.
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Jiang says the perfected life of angels appears boring and unattractive to modern readers even if Beatrice presents it as ideal.
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"okay anyone else yes the mercy of christ becomes so much more apparent that it's the true way and it's like the divine truth..."
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"made you look for a preacher that would have changed your mind yeah that's that's great that's fantastic okay that's exactly what status is..."
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"conflict between the two but there's also real deep affection between the two and it's very much real okay and and we know what's..."
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"we'll just finish with candle 29 then uh on saturday we break tomorrow guys okay we break tomorrow um and then we come back..."
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"know how we're just screwing up we don't really get anything but i don't think anyone uh who reads this comes with the impression..."
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