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f4752f77w2j	Patrick Meredith Gardner	Dante and the Suffering Soul	2010		.txt	text/plain	331	11	31	Most literary visions of the afterlife ignore such difficulties, silently granting pseudo-embodiment to the departed; but Dante, employing similar aerial bodies, directly questions their nature. I argue that Dante's explanation of the shades (primarily in Purgatorio XXV) is a coherent justification of the possible union of separated souls to aerial bodies: not a formal union allowing for sensation, but a virtual one allowing for manifestation&#8212which is precisely parallel to angelic appearances.	cache/f4752f77w2j.txt	txt/f4752f77w2j.txt