Shut Up and Climb the Mountain | Purgatory I

N.B.: As a reminder, I will be using W.S. Merwin’s translation of Purgatorio. Dante stands now at the foot of Mount Purgatory, about to begin an ascent of purification. As a Protestant standing beside him, there is a part of me that wants to say, “Um, you know you don’t actually have to do this, right?…
Love Makes Chaos, the Suicides, & a Personal Vision: Cantos XI-XIII

Reading Journal Home << Previous Entry Next entry >> Love, Chaos, and the Order of Hell (Cantos XI-XII) Any decent edition will help you make sense of the order of Hell as Dante envisions it and as Virgil describes it here, so I needn’t rehearse it except to remark on the fact that it is…
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