Flattery And Feces, Together At Last: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 115 - 134
We've come to the back of INFERNO, Canto XVIII, to the two flatterers who live down in the pouch filled with the muck from human privies.Just as a warning: This passage is crude and crass. The language is vulgar, maybe even NSFW. Be careful.Dante, our pilgrim, and his guide, Virgil, have come to the top of the second bridge over the second of the "malebolge" (the "evil pouches") that make up the eighth circle of fraud. We've already seen that the place is disgusting. Now we're about to see that the sinners are even more so.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we slow-walk through Dante's masterpiece…
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