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Jiang's first answer to the arrow-order question is that Dante is trying to show a realm where events happen all at once, at a speed that collapses ordinary temporal sequence.
"in during this part of the text okay um so first of all we are beyond time and space meaning that what's happening here..."
"...and around the world okay all right as the ritual begins time collapses there are two series of dances separated by the liminal moments..."
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.
For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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