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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I had no idea what I was reading. I mean, I started reading Divine Comedy about four years ago for the first time. I..."
Jiang says he began reading the Divine Comedy about four years before this lecture and initially understood almost nothing, with long periods of confusion and frustration that were not solved by watching explanatory videos online.
"I had no idea what I was reading. I mean, I started reading Divine Comedy about four years ago for the first time. I..."
"So I'm like, oh, my God. I'm going to, I am going to be a complete idiot. Okay? But I really, really want to..."
"...two. Number three then is what then is the point of teaching Dante?"
"...will continue to teach. Two weeks from now, I will be teaching Dante. I'll be live -streaming Dante to a global audience. And after..."
"...I don't know that you're now teaching at Harvard and you're teaching Dante, but you come back, and I'm still here after 20 years,..."
"...taught Dante for three years now. This is my third time teaching Dante, and what's amazing about it is that all students love Dante,..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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