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Let The Apocalypse Roll: PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 1 - 30
Season 2 Episode 223
Our pilgrim, Dante, and the beautiful lady across Lethe walk on for a bit before the stream bends and the pilgrim ends up facing the right way to see…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Essential Fulcrum Of COMEDY: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 134 - 148
Season 2 Episode 222
The beautiful lady winds up her discourse with a corollary that combines both revelation and reason to offer a fulcrum to COMEDY as a whole: The clas…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Abundance Of The Poet's Imagination In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 109 - 133
Season 2 Episode 221
The lady across the stream continues her answer to the pilgrim Dante's question about the breeze and the water. In this case, she explains the ecolog…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Breeze Of The Poem's Faith: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 85 - 108
Season 2 Episode 220
The lady in Eden says she's come to answer the pilgrim's questions. And he's got one. It just might not be the first question on our minds.
But it's o…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Many Contraditions In Eden: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 67 - 84
Season 2 Episode 219
The lady in the forest has come to face the pilgrim and his poets across the stream in the forest.
The pilgrim clearly feels a sexual attraction towar…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Darkening Poetry Around The Solitary Lady: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVIII, Lines 43 - 66
Season 2 Episode 218
Our pilgrim, Dante, calls the solitary lady over to him. She can't cross the stream that divides them, but she can dance in place before coming close…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
8 months 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…
8 months 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…
8 months, 1 week 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…
8 months, 1 week ago