A student proposes that the blinding episode can also be read as blind faith or a trust exercise rather than only as imaginative vision.
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Key Notes
A student proposes that Dante may be telling readers to stop blaming women for everything and instead take ownership of their own acts.
Another student argues that feminine love is central because Dante's movement toward love begins through Beatrice.
A student notes that recurring tree imagery may matter here, but Jiang only confirms the motif and moves on without interpretation.
A student suggests the passage alludes to multiple older divine names in scripture, which supports Jiang's emphasis on instability in naming God.
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"I'm saying that it's also like, I think it's really funny because it's actually also a physical manifestation of blind faith, but I think..."
"Maybe he is telling people to stop blaming women for everything that happened to you. And start taking ownership of what you have done."
"Okay. Yes. I think for Dante the source of love was originally his love toward Beatrice. So that's why I think he's Beatrice or..."
"I would just like to draw attention to all the tree motifs he has been using. That's all I wanted to say. It's a..."
"Right. Okay. All right. Yeah. There's lots of reference to the tree. Okay. Let's keep on going."
"And I wonder if the owl refers to, like, Elowen or something, which used to be an old name of God in the Old..."
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