The quoted exchange resolves with Dante naming Virgil, Statius attempting bodily reverence, and Virgil reminding him that shades cannot treat one another as solid bodies.
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Shades
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I know you're trying labor and successfully. Do tell me why, just now, your face showed me the flashing of a smile. Now I..."
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"I know you're trying labor and successfully. Do tell me why, just now, your face showed me the flashing of a smile. Now I..."
"You are a shade. A shade is what you see. And rising, he, now you can understand how much love burns in me for..."
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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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