The best answer offered in the packet is that the new shadow means Dante is finally seeing something other than only himself, which is why Jiang keeps pressing the class to visualize what the shadow falls upon.
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Seeing
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"Let's keep on going. Okay. Let's go. Huh? Yeah. Like, you guys keep on going. I can't see it. Right? He sees it. It..."
"Like casting a shadow on something other than himself."
"Guys visualize this. What is he seeing right now? What's he focused on right now?"
"...he will say that what heaven is, is every day you're seeing with God, okay? Which is a great image, but it's a concept...."
"You guys understand. He's actually seeing them as he walks, all right? This is like lucid daydreaming. How does this happen, okay? We understand..."
"...i then could recognize my not false desires my guide on seeing me behave as if i were a man who's freed himself from..."
"...on below but i beseech you to define the cause that seeing it i may show it to others aside from which his sorrow..."
"...then when those shades were so far off from us that seeing them became impossible a new thought rose inside me and from that..."
"...you, my lord, when will you let me be happy on seeing vengeance that concealed makes sweet your anger and your secrecy? What have..."
"...reasons and so this kind of dissonance blinds the poet from seeing the holy light does that make sense guys okay that's why stadius..."
"...to write it the aeneas shows mercy but it's almost like seeing the sword belt of one of your comrades is the is empire..."
"...him. Now it gives me no less cause for sad lament, seeing you so deformed. But tell me, for God's sake, what has unleaved..."
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