To Be Saved, Tell A Story: INFERNO, Canto II, Lines 76 - 114
Where's Dante, our pilgrim? Not in this passage! He's fallen out of his own poem as Virgil and Beatrice engage in their rhetorical battle.And where's hell, the promised blaze with its tortured sinners? Instead, we're headed to the heights of heaven with Beatrice . . . who talks about those flames!What ultimately wins the day? Beatrice's story of her quest to save Dante. To set him on the road to heaven? Maybe. But more importantly, to set him on the road to writing COMEDY.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we fly to the heights of heaven, then come right back to Virgil and Beatrice in of WALKING…
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