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Jiang's own best guess is that giants are made of clay and rock just as hell is, while angels are made of divine light just as heaven is.
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"Okay. What are giants made of? Clay. Rocks. Right? What is hell made of? Probably clay and rocks, right? What are angels made of?..."
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"...and he directed us upward between two walls of the hard rock, and then he moved his plumes, and fanning us, affirmed that those..."
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"...There, so I became, and so remained until, through the cleft rock that lets one climb above, I reached the point at which the..."
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"...on, and my guide moved through the unencumbered space, hugging the rock as one walks on a wall close to the battlements. For those..."
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"...enclosed our path rich bright running water fell from the high rock and spread itself upon the leaves above when the two poets had..."
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"...from hesitation, then he moved with me behind him up the rocks and toward the heights. Okay, alright,"
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"...but he would have to say there were some really tricky rocks, there were some animals, but what do these signify? I just think..."
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"...Tarpeia, when good Metellus were removed from it, from which that rock was left impoverished, did not roar so nor show itself so stubborn...."
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"...have found a fit excuse? Our upward pathway ran between cracked rocks. They seemed to sway in one, then the other part, just like..."
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"...where stood the one who guided me, another story upon the rock. Therefore I moved past Virgil and drew close to it, so that..."
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"Right. And what are these rocks? What's inside these rocks? Carvings, okay? This is artwork. The first thing that Dante sees when he enters..."
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