Jiang says the absurdity of one shade kissing another shade’s feet amplifies the scene’s burden and embarrassment for Virgil.
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Shade
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Jiang says Virgil himself recognizes that this explanation does not really solve the problem once the physical body is gone.
The newly liberated shade is confused that Dante still needs guidance this high on the mountain, because souls who reach this zone are normally supposed to be moving upward toward heaven as quickly as possible.
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"...a burden right because he says there's no need you're a shade a shade is what you see i'm like like he the studies..."
"you're both like shades right so if you kneel down i can't actually feel you kissing my feet"
"Okay, so what Virgil was saying is, well, so Maligar, Maligar is a story where Maligar, his soul is kept alive by a firewood,..."
"He exclaimed, as we move forward quickly, if God's not deems you worthy of ascent, who's guided you so far along the stairs. If..."
"So the soul is confused because, um, if you reach this point in a mountain, then you're going to heaven. So you should be..."
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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...
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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