light-heartedly Today is Good Friday, and an unusual one: it’s also March 25th, the day of the Annunciation, traditionally New Year’s Day by the Catholic calendar. It was believed to be the day God created the world, and hence the day He began it again with the Incarnation; the day of the Passover as well (in […]
Tag Archives: Divine Comedy
Venerdi Dantesco.
25-Mar-16Rereading Dante.
15-Dec-11Xinpu I’ve been reading the Divine Comedy recently. It continues to astonish me. I remember reading it in college, as a freshman, and feeling quite certain that Purgatorio was better than the Inferno, and Paradiso was best of all. As time has gone on I have become only more aware that this is most emphatically a […]
Helen Luke and Dante.
15-Oct-09Time spent among people reveals just how difficult it is, even for the most worthy and competent, to be capable of real love and relationship. Developing this capacity is in truth the sole bifocal commandment of the Christian religion, all others being mere ancillae; and it is also the goal of Jung’s school of psychoanalysis, […]