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Jiang says fiction feels real because it explains universal truths rather than because it invents arbitrary novelty.
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Universal truth
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Jiang accepts the cross-tradition comparison that disciplined abstention and meditation can intensify visionary connection, treating this as a universal truth rather than a Dante-only mechanism.
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"...read it because it's real to us right because explaining these universal truths to us uh yes so does that mean whenever"
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"the point that we were talking about uh contemporary thought like we're talking about how dante can clean him clean himself get better connection..."
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"exactly i mean this is a universal truth okay it's something that i've experienced in my life where um when i write novels like..."
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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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