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A further student resists Jiang's dismissal of Rowling by arguing that painful conditions and hardship can sharpen imagination and produce serious writing.
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Suffering
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Jiang frames Dante's core conflict as the need to reconcile prophetic mission with the misery of exile from Florence in 1302, including the loss of home, property, and wealth.
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He says Troy's destruction and Aeneas's suffering are retroactively justified by the imperial destination of Rome, which lets Aeneas recommit to his mission.
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In the quoted passage, Dante asks his ancestor to tell him plainly what fortune approaches, describing earlier warnings as grievous but saying foreknowledge lets the arrow land more gently.
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A student proposes that Dante's predicted suffering may be framed both through Aeneas and through Christ-like suffering that brings about a new life.
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Jiang says the student's reading is correct: Dante is patterned both on Aeneas's journey and on a Christ figure who suffers and dies to bring salvation into the world.
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Jiang says Dante must go into exile and isolation to produce the Divine Comedy, but the prophecy still looks like a prison sentence whose reward only arrives after death.
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A student proposes that Catholic theology treats suffering for Christ as spiritually ennobling, so Dante may understand his exile as a Christ-like sacrifice undertaken for his great work.
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"Okay. Bruce? Thank you. I was saying there's so many famous writers. Some of the writers in America, for example, like Hemingway, right? So,..."
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"All right, okay. So we'll take a break, and we'll come back at 1 o 'clock, okay? All right, thanks, guys. Are we good,..."
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"...Okay, so how does he reconcile this pain, this agony, this suffering, with his large divine mission? And here, what he's going to do..."
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"Troy was destroyed for a reason. To found Rome. Aeneas had to go on this long, painful journey in order to build the foundation..."
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"Like Phaethon, one who still makes fathers wary of sons, when he had heard insinuations, and he, to be assured, came to Clemene, such..."
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"heals souls and when descending to the dead world, what I heard about my future life were grievous words. Although against the blows of..."
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"...Aeneas, I think his name is Aeneas, from Troy, and the suffering of Christ? Like, could you be drawing this comparison that he is..."
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"Yeah, that's exactly the parallel. So you say two things, okay? Yes, clearly he is referencing Aeneas and his journey and the prophecy from..."
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"Okay, so that's a good start, okay? Um, if he is to achieve Divine Comedy, he needs to go into isolation. Okay? This is..."
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"...Christ. So there's this, let's say there's this almost preoccupation with suffering and the ennobling of the spirit in Christian, in Catholic, uh, theology...."
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"like it proposes a solution for people who like went through suffering without understanding why they went through suffering because like they went through..."
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"...okay so you suffer and now you can now explain your suffering what do we call this order no okay so so so think..."
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