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Reading INFERNO, Cantos 18 - 20
Season 1 Episode 224
We're continuing to read INFERNO for what it truly is: a glorious plot, the story of a guy who wakes up lost and walks across the known universe.
Join…
3 years, 6 months ago
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 14 - 17
Season 1 Episode 223
We've finished our slow-walk through INFERNO, passage by passage, bit by bit, allusion by allusion, across over two hundred episodes of WALKING WITH …
3 years, 6 months ago
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 11 - 13
Season 1 Episode 222
We have finished our slow-walk through the first canticle of Dante's masterwork, COMEDY. And we're celebrating by reading the cantos straight through…
3 years, 6 months ago
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 8 - 10
Season 1 Episode 221
We're continuing our read-through of Dante's INFERNO, the first canticle of COMEDY, as we conclude our long study of this first third (or so) of Dant…
3 years, 6 months ago
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 4 - 7
Season 1 Episode 220
We've finished our walk across INFERNO, passage by passage, interpretive knot by interpretive knot. It's now time to see Dante's INFERNO for what it …
3 years, 6 months ago
Reading INFERNO, Cantos 1 - 3
Season 1 Episode 219
We're not ready to finish our walk across hell. Instead, there's one more thing to do: hear the walk for what it is. A story. A narrative through-lin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Let's Walk Out To See The Stars: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 127 - 139
Season 1 Episode 218
Can you believe we got here? The final lines of the first canticle of Dante's masterwork, COMEDY.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we climb out of hell to…
3 years, 7 months ago
Despite All The Ribbing And Drubbing, Virgil Remains Virgil To The End: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 94 - 126
Season 1 Episode 217
We've come beyond Satan and are standing in a giant, empty, baronial hall, waiting to get out of hell.
But not before our pilgrim, Dante, gets some an…
3 years, 7 months ago
More About Up, Down, And Spin: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
Season 1 Episode 216
There's much more to be said about this problem of up, down, and spin after Dante the pilgim and Virgil pass the center of the earth.
Join me, Mark Sc…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Way Down Is The Way Up: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
Season 1 Episode 215
We've seen it all. Now we just have to get out. And to do that, we have to make a big turnaround on Virgil's shoulders. Right at Satan's butt.
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3 years, 7 months ago