Status Updates From The Purgatorio

I’m still really glad that I am reading this. Nevertheless, I am grateful for critical thinking skills. Some of it is brilliant. Some of it mixes metaphors like a defective 13th century Cuisinart.

Dorothy L. Sayers quote:
“People who tackle Dante in this… way [by just reading Inferno] seldom get beyond the picturesque squalors of the Inferno. This is as though we were to judge a great city after a few days spent underground among the cellars and sewers; it would not be surprising if we were to report only an impression of sordidness, suffocation, rats, fetor, and gloom.”

I spoke too soon on episode 192 of the Book Cougars. Souls _are_ suffering physically in Purgatory, they’re just not being mercilessly tortured for eternity but have the opportunity to cleanse themselves and advance toward Paradise. Just finished the Cantos dealing with Pride. The Seven Deadly sins fascinate me.