An Angry Pilgrim Among The Angry Sinners: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 31 - 63
We've been through some dramatic passages: dark woods, wild beasts, Francesca, and Cerberus. But nothing rivals the crossing of (river? swamp?) Styx in the fifth circle of INFERNO.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we take a slow walk through this passage about our pilgrim Dante's time among the wrathful. We'll ferry across and almost get capsized along with him and Virgil.This passage is loaded: Bible verses, strange references, thematics picked up from previous passages, thematics setting up future passages. These lines deserve a slow walk.To support this podcast, please consider a very small…
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