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“Ruined on the ground, the dust spontaneously resumed its former shape. Just so expires the *phoenix* in its flames, great sages agree”. Canto XXIV, Pg 203.

#Summersouls
Mythical #Birds
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Darn it Hozier, this is your fault! No I‘ve read large parts and summaries before. He just inspired the purchase with his music. 🔥

Those Bantam Classics cover designs stand the test of time . (1980s)What say you Littens?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-08-16/hozier-pandemi...

OMG, I had to read this in college. 😖

#Underworld #Movie2BookRecs
@Klou

2.25/5 🌕🌕🌘🌑🌑

#StoryGraph: fiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced | published 1320

The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of Western literature. An epic poem in three parts, it tells the story of Dante‘s journey through the afterlife: Inferno describes the suffering of souls warped by vice. Purgatorio explores the theme of repentance and the elements of good character. Paradiso reveals the true glory and freedom attainable with God.

I wanted to read this to understand the references I keep hearing. Well, now I‘ve read it.

Wow... Dante is so cool and can do no wrong 🥰🥰🥰

Well, I finally read the Inferno, part 1 of Dante‘s epic Divine Comedy. Not gonna lie and say I really understood a lot of it, (I would need to take a whole course in Italian history for that), but overall it was actually surprisingly readable. So much so in fact that I‘m actually tempted to go ahead and read Purgatorio and Paradiso, even though I‘ve heard they‘re a lil more difficult. But either way, I enjoyed this more than I expected to. 🙂

Good thing my friend gave me a cliff notes.
It's was an OK story with a different look at hell.

Meanwhile, in my cozy corner, I am slogging through Dante (in English) and am finally in Purgatorio! I think this should be mandatory reading for all Congresspeople in 2020-2021.

#20best2020 well, capriciously for the moment.

The year of the plague gets Inferno. (I think all of these covers are legible enough except Nabokov‘s Invitation to a Beheading, Sarah Brooms The Yellow House and maybe Nabokov‘s Laughter in the Dark)

Please join in. Specifically encouraging @batsy @stretchkev and @LitStephanie (but only if you want to. 🙂)

You know the therapy technique where you journal or write a letter but don‘t send it? Well Dante is like this angsty dude pissed off at being exiled so he writes an epic poem placing his political enemies under various forms of torture in hell. Instead of tearing it up, he publishes it and it is still around 700 years later. A fun and awesome read. Seriously though, to get the most out of it make this a classroom or group read. #classics

I didn‘t believe in hell before I started this book, and I certainly don‘t believe in it now. This is actually a great piece for the Halloween season. Some of it comes off as cartoonish and more like a fun house. None of it is scary. I don‘t see how this made anyone fear hell or made anyone more devout, but to each their own, I guess. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Ok, Scribd. Not sure what game your algorithm is playing, but, seeing as it‘s 2020, I guess that‘s fair.

Next up! I‘ve never gotten my hands on this one so I‘m pretty stoked. Let‘s do this! #classics #dantesinferno #audiobook #litsy

Love the language here.
#Dante #Inferno #poetry

Interesting way to get around “really clever conversation, with really clever people, that I can‘t even begin to make up.”
#Dante #Inferno #poetry

I was always told these people were in hell. #GrowingUpCatholic #Dante #Inferno #poetry

Sage advice, no matter the situation or your religious/spiritual practices.
#Dante #Inferno #poetry

The language here is so lovely.
#Dante #Inferno #poetry

Here goes nothing!!!
#Dante #Inferno #poetry

What on Earth have I gotten myself into? 🤣😂🤣 How does one choose? Just reading the first 6 lines, it seems Hollander is clearer.
#Dante #Inferno #translation #helpme #mayday @Graywacke

"The path to paradise begins in hell."

The intricacies of hell managed to engage my thoughts for hours.

Time taken: 3 hrs

#top6reads of the first half of 2020

Inferno is my book of the year (appropriately?). Rereading this Cather was really special. I finally read Primo Levy (two books on there, so I cheated a little). The other three were just especially fun audiobooks, all recent.

Thanks @Liz_M and @batsy for the tags. No clue who wants to share and hasn‘t, but tagging @RaimeyGallant because I‘m curious of your list.

3⭐️ Think I should have read it a little slower and more methodically than I did. Nonetheless it was an interesting dive into the Inferno. Would recommend that you do read a copy that has notes. #classics #bookstagram #2020 #bookreview #fiction

#quotsyApr20 April 11: vocabulary

Ecco Dite

I‘ve finished, and have left the underworld and will miss it dearly. I wondered how such a silly conception of hell could define its social conception. But now I don‘t think I‘ll ever see it in any other way. Dante‘s careful construction doesn‘t make any logical sense, but yet it‘s entirely there in all its vivid detail.

The Colosseum ruins as Malebolge?

(Difficult to make text legible. I‘ll add it in the comments.)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-l...

Two of my pastor friends are bugged a lot by poor grammar, so one of our other friends found this article & posted it on fb. We all just had a convo last week about pronunciation. This article is hilarious!

From the Hollander notes: “The self-conscious interruption of the narrative may be enough to account for the self-conscious opening verse: “To continue, let me say . . .” However, Boccaccio, in his commentary to this canto, was the first to sponsor the idea that in fact Dante only now, in Lunigiana in 1306, took up again the composition of his poem, begun in Florence before his exile and left behind when he could not return to the city... 👇👇

ABANDON ALL HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER HERE.

(But my question for myself is will I have my 🦥 mug handy when I get to the proper level of sloth in purgatory)

How I‘m starting off my reading this year.

Does this count as a spooky read? 🤔 #Halloween #spooky #currentlyreading

What could be beyond the graveyard. Took this book off my husband's shelf. I've read bits and pieces, but old timey language is just hard for me sometimes.

#graveyard #ChillingPhotoChallenge #TeamStoker #Scarathlon @TheReadingMermaid

#covercrush #7days7covers 👹

That amazing moment when you find the ultimate 1966 Dante box set on the dusty shelfs of the local used book store. YESSSSS!

That caught my eye...

#SongsOfSummer #HotInHerre
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

“I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go among the lost.

Justice caused my high architect to move,
Divine omnipotence created me,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.

Before me there were no created things
But those that last forever - as do I.
Abandon all hope you who enter here.”

#MayMovieMagic | 1: #HighwayToHell

📷: Made with Typorama

Hey Satan, paid my dues
Playing in a rocking band
Hey mama, look at me
I'm on my way to the promised land, whoo!

#highwaytohell #maymoviemagic @Cinfhen @rohit-sawant

1. Christian literature and historical fiction
2. Frances Hodgson Burnett or Homer
3. Screwtape Letters
4. Horror
5. The Inferno by Dante
#HelloThursday
@wanderinglynn
This week is moving right along! 👋 ❤