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Money placed into financial or real-estate returns rather than productive work, treated here as rent-seeking behavior.
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Speculation
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Jiang tentatively identifies the honest woman who interrupts the dream with Beatrice, while stressing that the whole scene remains interpretive and speculative.
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Jiang says the prior day's imaginative speculation about Virgil as Lucifer or Beatrice bargaining him out of torment was exciting but not actually appropriate to Dante's conception of the universe.
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A student's speculative Mona Lisa reading imagines the painting as an androgynous self-portrait composite, showing how the work provokes imaginative theory-making beyond the visible surface.
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Jiang adds the historical speculation that Brutus may have been Caesar's son, further heightening the betrayal by intimacy and kinship.
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Jiang treats the class as openly speculative here because Virgil should not know paradise truths if he has spent eternity in Limbo.
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A student partly endorses Jiang's complaint that many supposed scientific breakthroughs of the last decades amount to speculation rather than world-changing discovery.
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Jiang defines the class as a space for speculation, inquiry, and debate, where participants may ultimately believe what they want rather than accept a single enforced doctrine.
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Another student's dream-based answer is speculative and suggests multiple universes or visionary glimpses, but it does not provide a stable explanation Jiang endorses.
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"...I don't know the answer. It's all interpretation, right? It's all speculation. So can someone tell me what is going on here? What is..."
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"In our understanding of the divine comedy, who is the siren? Do you know what I mean? Okay, yeah, I know the siren is..."
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"Yeah, that's a really great question, and it's something that I thought a lot about yesterday as well, because we went a bit extreme..."
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"Yeah because I've heard that Mona Lisa's hands is not the woman's hands. It must be baby's infant's hands and the face is like..."
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"...To Brutus, okay? So you guys don't know this, but there's speculation that Brutus was his son. All right. So remember, this is, when..."
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"...virgil could possibly be the master of hell this is our speculation we don't have evidence this is the case how is it suppose..."
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"...years or 50 years he's just you know just basically just speculation so i uh but i cannot see that i really on the..."
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"of speculation of inquiry of debate okay so um you can believe whatever you want all right anyway let's let's continue okay uh carol..."
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"Well, I don't know if I can answer the question, but I do, you know, just like maybe I was in my dream that..."
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"I don't know. I think it makes sense, but I'm like, yes, it kind of, cause God doesn't have his own free will."
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"Look, okay, there's a lot of things I don't know, okay? I'm very interested in the idea of lost Asian civilizations. They must exist,..."
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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...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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