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Of Brooks, Solitary Ladies, and Layered Meanings: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 22 - 42
Season 2 Episode 217
Our pilgrim continues walking through the old-growth forest, so dark that very little light can get into its cooling shade.
He is eventually blocked b…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Our Pilgrim Let Loose (Again) In A Dark Wood: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 1 - 21
Season 2 Episode 216
Our pilgrim has been set free--crowned and mitered, in fact--and can wander at will through the dense, thick wood that tops Mount Purgatory.
The openi…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Top Of The Mount (Part One): A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, CANTOS XXVIII - XXIX
Season 2 Episode 215
We've come to the top of Mount Purgatory, on the other side of the globe from Jerusalem and the closest earth ever comes to the heavens above.
Our pil…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
WALKING WITH DANTE is coming back!
Season 2 Episode 215
I'm in full recovery and ready to start our walk again at the wild and truly unprecedented PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, a canto so woolly that it has cr…
5 months ago
WALKING WITH DANTE is going on hiatus . . . and not for the best reasons
Season 2 Episode 215
Just a quick episode to tell you that my health crisis has reached a climax and I am headed to a major surgery that will undoubtedly change my life.
I…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Climax Of Virgil In COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 124 - 142
Season 2 Episode 214
We have come to the climax of Virgil's in COMEDY: the apex of his character, the moment when he is what he should have been all along, a poignant and…
6 months ago
To Refocus Virgil And COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 109 - 123
Season 2 Episode 213
We come to the climax of Virgil's character in the poem, the end of PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII. Let's take this dramatic and chilling scene in two episo…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Third And Final Dream On Mount Purgatory: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 91 - 108
Season 2 Episode 212
Our pilgrim has lain down on a step of the final staircase of Mount Purgatory, positioned between Statius below and Virgil above him.
As he watches th…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Flames Don't Burn Up Irony: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 49 - 90
Season 2 Episode 211
Our pilgrim has entered the flames of lust. For the first time, he is not a voyeur of the torments. He experiences them on the last terrace of lust.
H…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Of Fraud, Flames, And Love: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 19 - 48
Season 2 Episode 210
Our pilgrim stands on the brink of the flames. Virgil has to use every rhetorical trick in his bag to get Dante to move . . . and the only thing that…
6 months, 2 weeks ago