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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Because it's a vision being shown to Dante, to conscious minds, that if you showed that evil people sometimes are part of God's plan,..."
A student responds that Dante may need these traitors visibly punished because presenting evil as part of God's plan would be dangerous pedagogy for conscious readers.
Jiang says the entire purpose of Dante's visit to heaven is to return and write the Divine Comedy so readers can undertake the ascent themselves.
"Because it's a vision being shown to Dante, to conscious minds, that if you showed that evil people sometimes are part of God's plan,..."
"What did he use to create this thing? Pencil and paper. Did you guys not have it? Imagination. The imagination, do you understand? What..."
"and come back and then write in a very nice way so that we can all go on this journey ourselves, okay? That's why..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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