Jiang says Dante's meter and rhyme are designed to express the mathematical beauty and symmetrical structure of the universe.
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Symmetry
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A participant says Dante's numbered sequence and rhythm are meant to overwhelm the hearer with the universe's beauty and symmetry.
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"Okay, so let me point this out where the poetry, it is written in metered, it's written in rhyme as a way to express..."
"...the universe is structured like and how beautiful this kind of symmetry is. So, so,"
"...can see, it's very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's mathematical. There's a symmetry to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry...."
"...can see, it's very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's mathematical. There's a symmetry to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry...."
"...in Tehran. All right? Okay? But again, what the law of symmetry, asymmetry, tells us is that the empire, ultimately, is not as flexible..."
"of symmetry or polarity where, you know, if someone, someone like, if someone like Jeffrey Epstein, uh, whose peer evil exists, then someone whose..."
"...okay so this entire system is complete and unified second is symmetry symmetry or polarity and what this means is that if there's good..."
"...in the middle, okay? And these two, can you see the symmetry? Okay? It's clear that they are doing a religious ceremony, and because..."
"...burial thank you we do understand so this so this is symmetry right the soul comes into our world from the mother's womb from..."
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