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A student-offered mechanism for why the wrath visions press themselves on Dante while he walks.
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reflected light
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A student hypothesis in the lecture is that the canto's blinding reflected light may force the visions upon Dante, though the mechanism remains mysterious.
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"Fred. Fred, okay, yes? Um... I guess it's like reflected light. I don't want to say, like, psychedelics, but the cantos kind of start..."
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"Okay, it's possible, okay? But that makes no sense. Reflected light, doesn't it blind you? I mean, I guess it blinds him, and then..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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