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Inferno: Canto 7 -- Circle 4 & 5
Inferno: Canto 7 - Circle 4 and 5. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 7 - Circles 4 and 5. In the same way as the gluttonous and ravenous Cerberus guarded the circle of the gluttonous and ravenous, Plutus, the great miser, guards the circle of the hoarders and wasters (the avaricious and prodigal).*. It is entirely a point of speculation on my part because I cannot find any scholarship to affirm this, but I'm developing the idea that Charon represents sexual passion and misdirected love since all...
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Inferno: Canto 8 -- Circle 5
Inferno: Canto 8 - Circle 5. Monday, January 17, 2005. Inferno: Canto 8 - Circles 5. In Greek myth, we often stumble across Charon. As the boatman of Styx, not Phlegyas. And it was into Charon's palm the soul would have to place a coin in order to secure transit to the Underworld. Without the coin, the dead would have to wander the banks of the river for a hundred years (so, who said you can't, or shouldn't, take it. With you when you go? The River Styx" Lotta Tjernström, 2002). View my complete profile.
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Inferno: Canto 11 -- Circle 6
Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. With the zeal of a Jesuit on the missionary hunt for souls to save, Fr. Earl has raced into Canto XI ahead of my morning post, I see. I did something similar in Egypt, once, on the cliffs leading down to the tomb of Hatshepsut. Henry Wace, in A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. Upon which Dante's structure is bu...
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Inferno: Canto 12 -- Circle 7, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. While he is blind with Rage! Into the pass, quick, and get over the side! Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:36 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1.
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Inferno: Canto 13 -- Circle 7, Round 2
Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Saturday, January 22, 2005. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Which shows not only contrition on the part of the poets for having added to the despair of a soul, but also an appropriate grief for the state of being into which such despair has been articulated. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:45 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2.
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Inferno: Canto 15 -- Circle 7, Round 3
Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Monday, January 24, 2005. Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Having left the Wood of the Suicides far behind them, the poets are met in their crossing of the burning plain by Ser Brunetto Latino, described by Ciardi as a "dearly-loved man and writer, one who had considerably influenced Dante's own development" (119). Brunetto's influence is cited by the character that Dante draws as he makes reference to his Treasure. Written before the Trésor.
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Inferno: Canto 16 -- Circle 7
Inferno: Canto 16 - Circle 7. Tuesday, January 25, 2005. Inferno: Canto 16 - Circle 7. The waterfall of all three rivers we've already crossed is heard in the distance - the mingling of woe, hate, and fire are falling into the eighth circle on their way to Cocytus, the river of lamentations. In this brief mention of the rush of that spill, we get a sense of the funnel narrowing in on itself. The canto ends with Dante's noticing the beast's ascent, stopping in medias res. As though to build suspense.
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Inferno: Canto 18 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2
Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2. Wednesday, January 26, 2005. Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2. The poets take note of Jason of the Argonauts and cross into the second bolgia, filled with flatterers who wade through a river of processed food (note how I avoid using Dante's 'shit'), the noteworthy being Thais. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:56 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2.
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Inferno: Canto 19 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 3
Inferno: Canto 19 - Circle 8, Bolgia 3. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Inferno: Canto 19 - Circle 8, Bolgia 3. 9 A man named Simon used to practice magic 4 in the city and astounded the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. 10 All of them, from the least to the greatest, paid attention to him, saying, "This man is the 'Power of God' that is called 'Great.'". 11 They paid attention to him because he had astounded them by his magic for a long time,. 20 But Peter said to him, "May your money perish ...
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Inferno: Canto 20 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 4
Inferno: Canto 20 - Circle 8, Bolgia 4. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Inferno: Canto 20 - Circle 8, Bolgia 4. Now must I sing new griefs, and my verses strain/ to form the matter of the Twentieth Canto/ of Canticle One, the Canticle of Pain" (1-3). Still like the other fools? There is no place/ for pity here./ Who is more arrogant / within his soul, who is more impious/ than one who dares to sorrow at God's judgment? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:02 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Inferno: Canto 21 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 5
Inferno: Canto 21 - Circle 8, Bolgia 5. Sunday, January 30, 2005. Inferno: Canto 21 - Circle 8, Bolgia 5. Had best not be seen/ by these Fiends till I am ready" (61-2). In his analysis of this, Ciardi writes that "it is only in the passage through this Bolgia, out of the total. Once Malacoda assembles a group of malicious guides, Dante quite rightly protests, "In the name of heaven, Master, . . . what sort/ of guides are these? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:08 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
