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The One Who Crossed the Styx Dry-Shod — Inferno, Canto 9

· October 10, 2026
The One Who Crossed the Styx Dry-Shod Inferno 9

After a canto of stalled threats — a Virgil who cannot open the gate, three Furies calling for Medusa, and a warning to the reader to look under the veil — the rescue finally arrives, and it arrives as weather: a crash of sound over the marsh, both banks shaking, a simile of wind tearing … Read more

Cerberus and the Third Circle — Inferno, Canto 6

· October 10, 2026
Cerberus and the Third Circle Inferno 6

He comes back to himself already somewhere else — the poem never shows the descent — and what greets the returning mind is not a soul but a climate: eternal, cursed, cold, heavy rain, hail and dirty snow tipping through black air onto ground that stinks, and only after fifteen lines of weather do the … Read more