More About Up, Down, And Spin: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
There's much more to be said about this problem of up, down, and spin after Dante the pilgim and Virgil pass the center of the earth.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I explore this problem: the world upsi...
11 Des 202220min
The Way Down Is The Way Up: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
We've seen it all. Now we just have to get out. And to do that, we have to make a big turnaround on Virgil's shoulders. Right at Satan's butt.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we pass the center point in t...
7 Des 202234min
Noshing On The Worst Sinners In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 46 - 69
We've come to our last moments in hell. Here, our pilgrim Dante sees the three worst sinners in human history: Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius.Wait . . . what? Brutus and Cassius. Indeed, being gn...
4 Des 202242min
A Brief History Of Satan (Up Until Dante's Vision)
Dante the pilgrim has seen the final vision of INFERNO: Satan, looked in the ice sheet of Cocytus. Perhaps it's wise to step back and think about where this figure of Satan comes from--and how it exis...
30 Nov 202218min
The Three Faces Of Interpretation . . . Or Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 28 - 45
We're about to get a good look at Satan, closer and closer, until we can see the color of his faces. Yes, faces. Three of them. Some trinitarian perversion lies at the center of the universe.Join me, ...
27 Nov 202226min
An Overview Of The Seven Direct Addresses To The Reader In INFERNO
This episode is an interpolated one in the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. We've just gone beyond the last of the seven direct addresses to the reader in INFERNO. Let's look back over all seven of them to...
23 Nov 202225min
Behold Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 1 - 27
We've come to the final revelation of INFERNO, to its climax: the vision of Satan himself, called "Dis" by Virgil (after his own king of the underworld in THE AENEID).The emperor of the kingdom of woe...
20 Nov 202235min
The Zombie Apocalypse: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 118 - 157
We've come to the last sinner who speaks in INFERNO. And his story is as wild as it gets. He claims that once someone violates the guest/host relationship, their soul exits their body and falls into t...
16 Nov 202243min
