Virgil To The Rescue: INFERNO, Canto I, Lines 67 - 96
We meet the pilgrim Dante's first and great guide, the Roman poet Virgil. He is the pilgrim's master, his "author." Except he's also Virgil, a guy who has a limited understanding of the universe.What happens when you meet your hero and he's not what you imagined? What happens when he's as fallible as you are?Easy. You set off across the universe together. How else do humans do it?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we start the pilgrim's journey again, a do-over, all in the first canto, this time with a guide and not under the pilgrim's (or maybe the poet's) own steam.Here are the segments of this…
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