Essential
2021-01-07
An excellent discussion of an excellent work
- Ben's original Lenten and Easter season schedule for reading The Divine Comedy
- An automatically-updated version of Ben's schedule
Inferno overview
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Brutus and Cassius are being chewed by Satan eternally
And they've got it relatively good, compared to their partner Judas Iscariot, who is head-in Satan. And so he's up to his waist in Satan, he's being chewed alive for all eternity, he's naked from the waist down, and Satan is clawing the flesh off of his body for all eternity.
It's horrific.
Probably wasn't worth those thirty pieces of silver there, Judas!
He didn't even keep it.
He should have at least bought himself something nice.
Numerology in Dante
- For example, groups of three lines to mirror the Trinity.
- 33 Cantos in Purgatorio and 33 Cantos in Paradiso. 32 or 34 Cantos in Inferno because it is imperfect.
Paradoxes
Where fictional characters would end up in The Inferno
Matt
- Biff Tannin - Circle 4, pushing a Sisyphean boulder for greed
- The Hunter from Bambi - river of boiling blood for murdering Bambi's mom
- The Joker - tormented by serpents for thievery
Ben
- Yoda in Limbo
- Harry Potter in Circle 8, Malebolge 4 for practicing magic
- Michael Scott in the river of feces for flattery
- Jar Jar Binks taking Judas Iscariot's place