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The canto stages an interpretive mistake in which distance makes giants look like city towers until Virgil corrects Dante's faulty image.
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Towers
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...head there briefly when I seemed to make out many high towers, and I asked him, Master, tell me, what's this city?"
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"...head there briefly when I seemed to make out many high towers, and I asked him, Master, tell me, what's this city?"
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"...seem less strange to you, I'd have you know they're not towers, but giants, and from the navel downward, all of them are in..."
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"...For as on its ground wall Monte Rigoni is crowned with towers, so they're towered here above the bank that runs around the pit,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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