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He describes the terraces as corrective inversions: pride is humbled, wrath is blinded by smoke, gluttony starves, lust burns, and greed is forced to crawl.
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Terraces
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Jiang accepts a love-based map of the terraces in which the lower sins involve too little or failed love and the upper sins involve misdirected or excessive attachment.
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Jiang frames the last four terraces as misdirections of love rather than simple moral violations.
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Jiang glosses the seven P marks as peccata, signs of the seven deadly sins that will be removed one by one as Dante advances through purgatory.
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"there's a unity a coherence to this Dante cosmology I'm trying to figure out the logic of this I understand why you'd be punished..."
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"you are crawling uh with Raph what happens is you're blinded by smoke and the idea is that your anger blinds you right and..."
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"Yeah, that's also what I wanted to say. And to add on to that, I feel like for these different layers within Purgatory, it's..."
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"Exactly. You're right. Exactly. Right. So, it's structured the way it is because this, the last four, okay, it's really like misdirection of love,..."
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"There we approached, and the first step was white marble, so polished and so clear that I was mirrored there as I appear in..."
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"...sin, okay? So, the idea is that Donner has climbed seven terraces, which are the seven deadly sins, and he has to purge himself..."
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"...all equal so what happens is rather than doing all seven terraces you just do one terrace you fulfill your you purge your sin..."
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"...pure air and sight okay so we uh were in the terrace of law but um they're"
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"...love that profligately yields to that is wept on in three terraces above us. But I'll not say what three -shape that love takes...."
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"...us how, puritory is structured. He's saying that the last three terraces are the three, um, um, terraces of gluttony, lust, and greed. Okay?..."
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"...the streets and sitting, uh, in the restaurant outside in a terrace is the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. If you're a woman,..."
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"Okay, so they are now in a terrace of greed or avarice, and they're talking to Pope Adrian, who said that as Pope he..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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