Astride a Centaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 76 - 102
In INFERNO, the question of our pilgrim's corporeality continues to dog us (and perhaps the poet). Is the pilgrim in his body? Is this "merely" a dream sequence in which he's imagining he's in a body? How "real" is his journey?Although these may seem modern problems, they in fact bother Dante-the-poet in COMEDY, forcing him to make decisions about his narrative that will eventually pay off. For if our pilgrim is corporeal, then his sense of isolation in the spiritual world can become more profound.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we slow-walk through this passage toward the end of INFERNO, Canto…
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