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And thus onto Paradise

Paradiso Canto 6 surprised me by turning Heaven into a conversation about history, institutions, ambition, and motivation. Through Emperor Justinian, Dante moves beyond asking whether good was done and starts asking why it was done. If people can build meaningful things partly out of service and partly out of wanting recognition, where does healthy ambition end and ego quietly begin?

Paradiso Canto 5 takes Dante’s question from the end of Canto 4 and pushes it further: can later goodness make up for broken commitments? Dante’s answer: achievement and integrity are not the same thing, and faithfulness carries value that productivity alone cannot replace.

ultrakill enjoyer finally reads the source material to predict what happens in treachery when it comes out