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Disembodied Voices In The Pastoral Landscape Of An Ice Sheet: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 16 - 39
Season 1 Episode 198
We start our trek with the pilgrim Dante and his guide Virgil across the final, ninth circle of hell, an unforgiving ice sheet, where we encounter di…
3 years, 6 months ago
When Hell Gets So Bad You Despair Of Your Own Craft: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15
Season 1 Episode 197
We've come to the ninth circle of hell. But not quite yet. Dante opens Inferno, Canto XXXII with a metapoetic moment, a passage in which he talks abo…
3 years, 6 months ago
Welcome To The Foundations Of The Universe: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 130 - 145
Season 1 Episode 196
We've walked with Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, to the very foundations of the universe, the ninth circle of hell, the bottom of all that …
3 years, 6 months ago
Flattering Your Way To The Center Of The Earth: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 112 - 129
Season 1 Episode 195
Dante the pilgrim and Virgil walk on to find Antaeus, the unbound giant who can set them down on the floor of hell--otherwise known as the center of …
3 years, 6 months ago
Three Big Bad Giants With Not Much At Stake Except The Nature Of Comedy Itself: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 82 - 111
Season 1 Episode 194
We've walked by one giant, Nimrod, a mighty hunter, with his horn (like Roland). But there are more. Three, at least. Ephialtes, Briareus, and Antaeu…
3 years, 6 months ago
Nimrod, A Mighty Hunter, A Mighty Problem: INFERNO, Canto XXXI, Lines 46 - 81
Season 1 Episode 193
Dante the pilgrim thought he saw towers in the gap between the eighth and ninth circles of hell. But no, they were giants. Who were "entowered" in th…
3 years, 6 months ago
Towers? No, Giants! No, Towers! Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 28 - 45
Season 1 Episode 192
Virgil has promised Dante the pilgrim clarity if they press on toward the ring of towers ahead. But then maybe they don't need to, since Virgil expla…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Liminal Space Between The Eighth And Ninth Circles Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XXXI, Lines 7 - 27
Season 1 Episode 191
We've come through the ten malebolge or evil pouches of fraud, but we're not to the ninth circle of INFERNO yet. Instead, we're walking with Dante th…
3 years, 6 months ago
Our Farewell To Fraud With A Host Of (Maybe Unanswered) Questions: INFERNO, Cantos XVIII, Line 1, through XXXI, Line 6
Season 1 Episode 190
Here's our last episode on the giant eighth circle of INFERNO, the largest piece of real estate Dante creates in COMEDY.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as …
3 years, 6 months ago
An Overview Of Fraud, The Eighth Circle Of INFERNO
Season 1 Episode 189
We have been at fraud, in the eighth circle of hell, among the malebolge (or evil pouches) and with Dante the pilgrim and Virgil, for almost eighty-s…
3 years, 7 months ago