Dante, The Devine Comedy and Love (enlightenment)

Published Sunday, April 01, 2007 by Frank Sauce | E-mail this post

Dante's sportin' the stoic look like a poet

Caution: Don't put Dante's Devine Comedy on your To-Read-While-Shitting-in-The-Toilet-Pile of poetry. Your legs will go numb and you'll feel stupid.

"You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate." -A stupid-ass survey site

How could I have "betrayed reason at the behest of your [my] appetite for pleasure . . .?"

that's a crock-o-crap, though I do enjoy sharing the same level of Dis as Cleopatra and Helen of Troy[Egypt]. I've only betrayed reason for the unreasonable and the unknown, that certainly doesn't seem worthy of hell.

However, we're all worthy of hell now, aren't we? Not even Dante was so pious, though I'm sure Beatrice loved him in a benevolent, angelic way. Hell, I loved Dante's Beatrice when I was younger. But now I'm older and I would rather have a more unpure and passionate love. The best love is the dirtiest of the purest loves.

The thing that strikes me is how hell will not be that much different then life, " . . . blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for . . ." being born.

Of course, we here at Frank Sauce don't believe writing the long ass freakin' poems that are beautiful will get us into heaven either. But that doesn't stop any one here from givin' it a go, ya know?

A word or two can't hurt anyone that much, especially you.

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