Swearing The Truth About The Beast Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 124 - 136
Well, we've come to it. The moment of truth. Or fraud. And what if they're the same thing? Or similar things?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for a corker of a passage, the last bits of Canto XVI of INFERNO, in which our poet Dante steps out from behind the plot and swears on the fragments of his own text that he really did see a beast that no one has ever imagined in the depths of hell.Get ready for meta-poetry. Get ready for irony. Get ready for a complex stance of a writer taking charge of his own text. This passage has been lurking the wilds of the text for a while. And here it is. And here are…
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