goddess his poetry makes her out to be; that he was only “projecting” his own poetic beauty onto Beatrice. I think he would challenge you to a duel to defend the honor of his beloved; and then, much more important, if you both survived the duel, he would challenge you to a debate. He would argue and insist that his seeing of Beatrice is objectively true and the whole world’s seeing is false.29 The lover’s X-ray vision sees through the beloved’s body, temperament, and behavior into the heart; heart