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”’And could I live back then when Virgil lived, / I would agree to pass, beyond the due / that brought me out of exile, one year’s sun.’

These words turned Virgil round to me - his look / saying, unspeakingly: ‘Be silent now!’ / But will power can’t do everything it wills.’” (canto 21, lines 100-105, pg. 201)

DANTE IS SO FUCKING FUNNY WHEN HES BEING A BIT OF FLOP 😭 oh flopte…

'As yet we tarried by the seashore, like those who think about the way and in their hearts go on -- while still their bodies linger.'

jaja, alsof ik er niet genoeg van kon krijgen gak dees ding nog eens opnieuw lezen cuz italian professors love details

CANTO XXVI

Makenna's turn to pick our bedtime book and she wanted to read this to me. I think I was a sophomore in college (shout out to Dr. Lyman Baker's Great Books class) when I read this first. 😅

CANTO XXV

CANTO XXIV

CANTO XXIII