canto020.blogspot.com
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.
canto021.blogspot.com
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.
canto024.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 24 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 7
Inferno: Canto 24 - Circle 8, Bolgia 7. Wednesday, February 02, 2005. Inferno: Canto 24 - Circle 8, Bolgia 7. We meet our poets at the beginning of this canto not here with us in the seventh bolgia but still negotiating their way out of the pit of the hypocrites, and just as reason can assist our climb out of hypocrisy were we to employ it to that end, Virgil assists Dante to the pit's rim and chastises him for resting at the end. "'Up on your feet! This is no time to tire! View my complete profile.
canto026.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 26 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 8
Inferno: Canto 26 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Friday, February 04, 2005. Inferno: Canto 26 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. 110-11). The ship passed the Equator and arrived at the base of Mount Purgatory where an angel of G-d pulled it underwater, drowning the crew so that Ulysses's death by water precipitated an eternity in fire. Why is Ulysses in hell as an evil counselor, then? Fee-fie-foe-fum - the next canto beckons, and I smell the blood of an Italian. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:21 PM. View my complete profile.
canto027.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 27 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 8
Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Saturday, February 05, 2005. Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Respond to the question, "Why do they come to the mall? With the answer, "It's a habit for them in life, so they continue it in death," we find the same answer could be given here. What might we learn from that? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:22 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8.
canto028.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 28 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 9
Inferno: Canto 28 - Circle 8, Bolgia 9. Sunday, February 06, 2005. Inferno: Canto 28 - Circle 8, Bolgia 9. Vedi come storpiato è Maometto. Just as Mohamed showed interest and concern in the fate of someone still living, so, too, does the unnamed soul who introduces Curio, whose tongue has been cut out for his crime of counseling Caesar to cross the Rubicon and start the Civil War that would eventually lead to his assassination (we saw Caesar with the Virtuous Pagans, you might say - what's up with that?
canto029.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 29 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 10
Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Monday, February 07, 2005. Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:27 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10.
canto030.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 30 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 10
Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Tuesday, February 08, 2005. Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. It is important that we understand this much about community if we are to understand the nature of hell (and conversely of G-d), which makes this a good heads up for what you're about to encounter below. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:29 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10.
canto031.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 31 -- The Edge of the Pit
Inferno: Canto 31 - The Edge of the Pit. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 31 - The Edge of the Pit. Want to go down there! The point is that Virgil might have too early dismissed this for babbling because it was uttered in a language he did not know; nonetheless, his identity lends credence to it, for it was Nimrod who built the Tower of Babel and tried to reach the gods through contrivance rather than contrition. While they are not to see Briareus, whom Virgil describes in the Aeneid.
canto032.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 32 -- Circle 9, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 32 - Circle 9, Round 1. Thursday, February 10, 2005. Inferno: Canto 32 - Circle 9, Rounds 1 and 2. Some say the world will end in fire,. Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire. I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice,. I think I know enough of hate. To know that for destruction ice. Fire and Ice" - Robert Frost". Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:32 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto034.blogspot.com
Inferno: Canto 34 -- Circle 9, Round 4
Inferno: Canto 34 - Circle 9, Round 4. Saturday, February 12, 2005. Inferno: Canto 34 - Circle 9, Round 4. We exit hell on Lincoln's birthday, the fourth day of Lent, dancing to the infernal rhapsody, "On march the banners of the King of Hell" (1)! Personally, I would have taken my time and waited till Saturday, but Fr. Earl has already skated across the ice, without passing go, nor collecting his two hundred dollars, and I feel compelled to post today or be damned tomorrow! View my complete profile.
