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Jiang rejects the idea that Dante merely creates Virgil through close reading; he argues Dante summons Virgil as a real, independent person.
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Summoning
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Jiang uses that experience to support the claim that Dante summoned Virgil because truly independent characters are revealed rather than fabricated.
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Jiang answers the fictional-character objection by saying fiction does not invent unreal beings but summons real persons from an infinite universe, a view the class links to archetypes.
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Jiang says Virgil feels less like a literary fabrication than a summoned presence because Dante's portrayal captures such specific, excessive human realism.
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"...what's happening. I don't think he's creating Virgil. I think he's summoning Virgil. There's a difference. You know, you guys understand there's, there's, there's,..."
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"Yeah. I think Don has summoned Virgil here. It's very hard for me to explain how this could work otherwise. Okay. Because like, we're..."
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"to spend my own my life and like i can't explain the process and that's why i think that what's happened here is that..."
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"this uh historical figures into your mind um it's like a seance right uh but what it but can you like summon this like..."
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"...so so when you're writing fiction all you're doing is you're summoning someone from here yes well so just to answer that through"
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"through this lens like the fictional characters uh are basically real characters like they're not really that's right like we're all sort of part..."
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"he's saying is this okay the guy spent 500 years in the same crap over and over to make himself worthy of god and..."
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"...really, really afraid because they didn't want anybody to know about summoning angels and demons and stuff."
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"...this is absurd yes i guess the other thing other than summoning virgil that he could have done in real life if dante met..."
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"...can Google this, okay? Ronan Farrow, Sam Altman, AI data centers summoning demons. So... So, yeah. And so I think that what the elite..."
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"...these pictures in caves. Because these caves, it's almost like you're summoning the spirit, all these animals, to return, right? You've killed these animals...."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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