Mythlee’s Reviews > Purgatorio > Status Update

This divine spirit is directing us
toward the ascent without our even asking,
concealed in his own shining.

He cares for us as we do for ourselves, since he that sees another's need and awaits the asking
maliciously has set his mind upon refusal.
XXVII.55-60

But I was getting so bogged down that I actually skipped ahead to XXIV (gluttony) and have read through XXIX (garden of eden).

canto X with its focus on mimetic art, so lifelike as to blur the lines, makes me think of Tolkien's faerian drama

The address to Florence hits a little too close to home these days: "Athens and Sparta, which made the ancient laws and had such civil order, gave only hints of the good life compared to you, who make such fine provisions that the threads you've spun but in October do not survive to mid-November. How many times within your memory have you changed laws, coinage, offices, as well as customs, and renewed your members?"

For this one, I'm alternating Sayers and the Hollanders.