The resumed reading shows that the fame dynamic has a textual basis: more souls interrupt their song once they notice Dante's shadowed body.
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Souls
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The canto then reintroduces the practical climb through a flock of souls whose attention is caught by Dante's living shadow.
Jiang says the passage's language is designed to illustrate the intertwining of souls through an image of sexual union after a long shared journey.
Jiang explains Dante's confusion in the lower sphere as a question about why these souls are not simply with God but appear separated within a ranked heaven.
Jiang's theory is that souls arrive in this life with a purpose chosen before birth, and those whose purpose is learning or transcendence are often given hard circumstances so adversity can become a means of ascent.
Jiang says the present Kali Yuga crisis is attractive to great souls because it offers a concentrated test of spirituality and a chance to spread redemption in dark times.
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"...long horse oh do you see what's happening here right these souls are"
"...around the wall of rock along the left a band of souls appeared to me to be approaching us but so unhurriedly their movements..."
"...refused to budge even as men when apprehensive halt oh chosen souls you have ended well virgil began by virtue of that peace which..."
"...illustrate the controlling the con cut the sort of intertwining of souls together okay it's almost like a sexual union a sexual climax where..."
"their vows were not fulfilled okay so dante is um in the spears and he sees people and he's completely confused by this because..."
"...we all come here with a purpose, okay? We're all these souls that drift in the ethereal realm. We all come with a purpose,..."
"...interesting about the Kali Yuga is that you have all these souls up there and these are great souls. They all want to come..."
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