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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.
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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.
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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.
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Purgatory: Canto 3 -- The Foot of the Mountain
Purgatory: Canto 3 - The Foot of the Mountain. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto III - Ante-Purgatory: The Base o. Saturday, February 19, 2005. Purgatory: Canto III - Ante-Purgatory: The Base of the Cliff. Is created in the shape and form of the Catholic mass (just as the Inferno. Is created in the shape and form of a Cathedral), and the mass is designed to bring us into continuous reconciliation with God. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
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Purgatory: Canto 4 -- The First Ledge
Purgatory: Canto 4 - The First Ledge. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First L. Sunday, February 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First Ledge. Dante was a follower of Plato. Dan Colvin, Sun Mountain, 2000. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
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Purgatory: Canto 6 -- Prayers for the Dead
Purgatory: Canto 6 - Prayers for the Dead. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who D. Tuesday, February 22, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who Died by Violence. In Ryan Rutan's "Holy Ninjas," the spoof I played in Canto XVI of the Inferno. Where Dante argues for the separation of Church and State), and to the general mismanagement of civic life both in the Empire in general and in Florence in particular.
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Purgatory: Canto 7 -- The Valley of Flowers
Purgatory: Canto 7 - The Valley of Flowers. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Neglig. Wednesday, February 23, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Plato, in the Republic. Of the former, Dylan Thomas would cry -. Do not go gentle into that good night,. Old age should burn and rave at close of day;. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,. Rage, rage aga...
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Purgatory: Canto 8 -- Guardian Angels & Serpent
Purgatory: Canto 8 - Guardian Angels and Serpent. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negli. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Contrapasso is always at play in the Comedy. That we find him clumsy and naive in his approach to love, someone who did not engage it head on like he does in the Comedy. Someone who pursued the lesser good rather than the goal to which he was oriented.
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Purgatory: Canto 9 -- Dante's Dream of the Eagle
Purgatory: Canto 9 - Dante's Dream of the Eagle. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel G. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel Guardian. Psalm 91, on which "On Eagle's Wings" was based, reads,. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 2:41 AM.
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Purgatory: Canto XI -- The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Proud. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,. And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,. And on the pedestal these words appear:. Thoug...
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Purgatory: Canto XII -- The Proud: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Rein of Pride. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.". Dante spends too much time with Od'risi, who reflects most appropriately his own venial sin of pride, and on which he'll reflect for some time yet. "Ah, what a difference between these trails/ and those of Hell: here every entrace fills with joyous song, and there with savage wails!
