Jiang says the anti-Purgatory souls do things that never happen in hell: they sing together, embrace one another, and touch each other affectionately.
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Singing
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Singing to the forest wakes it up happy and restores well-being; Jiang reads this as communicating with spirits in the same pattern as shamanic spirit-world travel.
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"That's right. They're happy. They're optimistic. Exactly. Yes. And also what are they doing that that never happens in hell? They're embracing each other...."
"...we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want it to awaken..."
"...banished Helice after she'd felt the force. Then they returned to singing, and they praised aloud those wives and husbands who were chaste as..."
"...hopeless okay whereas in purgatory even though it's arduous they are singing they're excited they're curious okay does that make sense so it's not..."
"of us people approached singing the mr verse by verse when they became aware that allowed no path for rays of light to cross..."
"upon the green grass and the flowers I saw seeded spirits singing salve Regina they were not visible from the outside okay and"
"the large -nosed one no less than they refer to Peter, singing with him, whose air brings Poully and Provence distress. The plant is..."
"...a growth mindset. So I think in this scene, they're just singing themselves into the growth mindset. So the actuality of what they're doing..."
"...Yes. And also another point is that the angels, if they're singing, it's like high vibration, high pitch, right? And if the giants aren't..."
"...idea is so important, right? Because in heaven, it's this pure singing. Here, there's music, but it's like sighing and melancholizing and groaning and..."
"...make hell. Yeah. I hope he rise somewhat here accompanying my singing with that music whose power struck the poor priorities so forcefully that..."
"...the truth of the universe he doesn't really know what he's singing and that's what a poet is a poet is a vessel for..."
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