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A student argument Jiang partially entertains is that the indirection of dream-reporting may let readers share Dante's uncertainty rather than simply watch a mechanically described climb.
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Uncertainty
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Jiang hedges that he guesses pronunciation and meaning have not changed much, while explicitly acknowledging that Aurelia would know better.
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Jiang accepts public humiliation and uncertainty about future misery as two real practical barriers to taking up poverty.
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Jiang explicitly marks his own distinction between Paul and Dante as difficult and possibly wrong, signaling interpretive uncertainty rather than settled doctrine.
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Jiang concludes from the Oracle story that the CIA and Navy had to help create both Oracle and Larry Ellison, though he leaves the exact cause open and only offers possibilities such as charisma, family ties, or luck.
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Jiang says he does not know the answer to the final psyop question and is offering a theory with uncertain connections.
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Jiang repeats that the entire framework is speculative and not known to be true.
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He explicitly marks the Putin explanation as a speculative hypothesis, not certain knowledge, and says its value lies in the predictions it generates.
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"So this entire trip, like, down the hill and up the mountain purgatory is supposed to be an experience that the reader can actually..."
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"And I agree with that. But the problem is, like, if you were to do that, you would write about how arduous the journey..."
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"I'm guessing not. My guess is it hasn't, but you would know better than I do."
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"Exactly, yeah, thank you, okay, so we have one, which is... We will become social ostracized, okay? Humiliation, it's public humiliation, okay? Everyone's gonna..."
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"It's the, if we haven't experienced it before, we don't know what it will be like, so what if I give everything away and..."
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"thus faith is also called an evidence okay this is really hard okay and I'm actually may get this wrong okay I don't know..."
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"The CIA, the Navy, you're going to hire a company because the company is going to do it cheaper and faster and more effectively..."
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"That's a really hard question to answer. So let's look at different possibilities. The first possibility is that he's been employed as an actor..."
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"I mean by that is, if you go back to during 2021, he was politically dead, right? Because during six riots happened, he was..."
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"And Marco Rubio said this, where, you know what, we wanted these negotiations, but the Israelis were planning to attack, if they attack, the..."
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"I don't know the answer to that, okay? I'm just providing you with a theory. And these connections, we don't know how close they..."
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"Um, you know, I I'm going to pass on this question because I don't know enough about Turkey. I don't know about the I..."
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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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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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