Jiang explains the poem's coherence by saying Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso were more real to Dante than ordinary life, so he encountered real persons there rather than mere figments.
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"...for Dante, the world of, um, Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso are real worlds with real people, does that make sense, they're more real to..."
"...not existed in the they didn't exist in the in the real world right so can you summon like fictional characters what but i..."
"...middle ages you can't okay so it's trying to imitate the real world as much as possible"
"...something similar but i also think that other than imitating the real world if you're basically trying to purge your shadow so in in..."
"Okay. Sorry. Um. Okay. Ideally. Okay. But. In. The. Real. World. There. Are. Things. Such. As. Class. Hierarchies. There. Are. Lots. Of. Constraints. Right...."
"...heaven, then how could the heaven and we live in the real world different? Or in other words, like, if we can feel, we..."
"It's a highlight the inequality of the real world. Right? So you're drawing this contrast. There's this massive inequality in our world where women..."
"...greatest threat to the system and basically you're talking about the real world so is there any other way you can talk about that..."
"...this is what beatrice refers to as a spiritual world the real world okay and then the phenomena are things to us phenomena okay..."
"...store for him when he leaves heaven, he returns to the real world, what awaits him. Okay? All right."
"On this world, but back in the old world, the real world, the world of heavens, you're still stuck where you are. But this..."
"...want us to think about how we can translate this into real -world practice, right? How to start schools. How to start movements. How..."
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