Glossary
Jiang's summary word for the upward, light, almost flying sensation produced by reading Dante well.
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transcendent
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...feel as though you're ascending upwards. It's almost like transcendence, okay? Transcendent. You're being transcendent when you read Divine Comedy. Yeah."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...feel as though you're ascending upwards. It's almost like transcendence, okay? Transcendent. You're being transcendent when you read Divine Comedy. Yeah."
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"...feel as though you're ascending upwards. It's almost like transcendence, okay? Transcendent. You're being transcendent when you read Divine Comedy. Yeah."
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"Transcendent. Psychedelics. I totally agree with the first two, but I think it still has a lack of will and purpose at the end...."
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"It's, like, way more, I feel like it's way more transcendent and beautiful."
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"...that's, and that shows you that the transnational capital elite is transcendent because they're able to control the levers of government. They're able to..."
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"...it linearly. Some people think there's never going to be a transcendent fume -type moment where, uh, the recursive learning really takes off. I..."
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"...God, okay? The voice literally enters you and makes you feel transcendent. It makes you feel you are moving towards heaven and that you..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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