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I had some questions about Dante's Inferno for our paper, so I emailed the professor. This is what she emailed back:
"Yes evidence from all Inferno is permitted--since we are dealing with the principle of correspondence, which is related to your duality question--good is high up and as we go down the "CHain" or "spiral" things become LESS good until they are frozen-the good no longer recognizable--reason totally perverted into stupidity--Yes also there is the Platoonic distinction between the REAL WORLD OF THE GOOD (metaphysical=eg GOD's PARADISE kind of=perfect world of ideal forms) and the apparent world (our "real" world of experience ) that is only a pale copy of the REAL and flawed ...Duality is the princial way of looking at things in the Western World--there's always two sides to everything...Also of course the schism=split=tongue of the serpent split-flames are often split like a beard...=conflict==the treacherous behaviour of a lot of people in hell: on the outside nice=inside rotten....the barrators etc...Satan was once the most beautiful of angels...NOW he is stuck as the ugliest and most beastly of creatures=rotten stupid reduced to simple and sterile mechanical movement...windmill without producing wheat that nourishes...yet he still is at the orders of GOD by punishing the sinners for him...feeding on sin...
So yes show me what you got on tomorrow,
hope this helped
Andrea"
WHAT?????
This is how she lectures, too!!
Dear lord.
Okay, off to try and make some sense of this...
"Yes evidence from all Inferno is permitted--since we are dealing with the principle of correspondence, which is related to your duality question--good is high up and as we go down the "CHain" or "spiral" things become LESS good until they are frozen-the good no longer recognizable--reason totally perverted into stupidity--Yes also there is the Platoonic distinction between the REAL WORLD OF THE GOOD (metaphysical=eg GOD's PARADISE kind of=perfect world of ideal forms) and the apparent world (our "real" world of experience ) that is only a pale copy of the REAL and flawed ...Duality is the princial way of looking at things in the Western World--there's always two sides to everything...Also of course the schism=split=tongue of the serpent split-flames are often split like a beard...=conflict==the treacherous behaviour of a lot of people in hell: on the outside nice=inside rotten....the barrators etc...Satan was once the most beautiful of angels...NOW he is stuck as the ugliest and most beastly of creatures=rotten stupid reduced to simple and sterile mechanical movement...windmill without producing wheat that nourishes...yet he still is at the orders of GOD by punishing the sinners for him...feeding on sin...
So yes show me what you got on tomorrow,
hope this helped
Andrea"
WHAT?????
This is how she lectures, too!!
Dear lord.
Okay, off to try and make some sense of this...