Cannibalism And Polyphony: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 124 - 139
Dante the pilgrim and silent Virgil lead us to the most disgusting scene in all of INFERNO as one sinner munches on the skull and brains of another.This scene is the setup at the end of INFERNO, Canto...
26 Okt 202225min
Snitching To The Devil: INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 103 - 123
Dante the pilgrim has come across an infamous traitor on the ice sheet of Cocytus in the ninth ring of hell. Here in Antenora, the second sub-ring of the bottom of the everything, Dante finds the guy ...
23 Okt 202233min
A Treacherous Poet On A Treacherous Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 70 - 102
We're nearing the center of the universe, a place where we can feel the weight of everything bearing down on us.Our pilgrim is showing the strain. Violent. Erratic. Our poet, too. Trying to convince u...
19 Okt 202237min
An Overview Of The Similes (So Far) In Dante's COMEDY
We've come a long way down into INFERNO and we'already passed dozens, even hundreds of similes. (It all depends on how you count them.)This podcast episode is an interpolated one in our slow-walk acro...
16 Okt 202237min
They Make Me So Mad That I Could Just Kill My Family: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 40 - 69
We've come to the first subset of the last circle of INFERNO, the pit of hell, an ice sheet that start with Caïna, which holds those who've offed family members, mostly for land or money. These guys a...
12 Okt 202245min
Disembodied Voices In The Pastoral Landscape Of An Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 16 - 39
We start our trek with the pilgrim Dante and his guide Virgil across the final, ninth circle of hell, an unforgiving ice sheet, where we encounter disembodied voices, questions about perspective, past...
9 Okt 202231min
When Hell Gets So Bad You Despair Of Your Own Craft: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15
We've come to the ninth circle of hell. But not quite yet. Dante opens Inferno, Canto XXXII with a metapoetic moment, a passage in which he talks about the limits of the very form he's using to craft ...
5 Okt 202235min
Welcome To The Foundations Of The Universe: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 130 - 145
We've walked with Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, to the very foundations of the universe, the ninth circle of hell, the bottom of all that is.All that blather about Antaeus? He's not so bad....
2 Okt 202227min
