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Purgatory, Episode 3
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3rd Episode, and Reason
Learning
“To become an able person in any profession, there are three things necessary — nature, study, and practice.”
– Aristotle
Sunday
Good morning! ☀️🌇☕️
It’s been a great week here with setting up the new podcast page on the Dante ‘s Comedy website, and eventually it all fell sort of neatly into place: dantescomedy.com/podcast!
We’ve also started a new Purgatory series right after we concluded our second reading with making videos and essays. Now, the third time, even more things are becoming more clear and one can notice even more little touches and subtle beautiful moments in the writing.
We’ve also set up a new donation and supporter page here: ko-fi.com/dantescomedy or directly on paypal/bank here.
So with a new year and after two years of podcasting and studies, we’ll have a new focus on building up the website with the blessing (not endorsement) from the Michelangelo Istituto in Florence. As it grows we might set up more features like forums and memberships directly on the website.
Finally – a little inspirational Quote from Aristotle:
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”.
😊
New Purgatory series – the Big picture!
Morning! 😊🌇☕️
We’ve just published the first episode (8 mins) of our new Purgatory series!
https://dantescomedy.com/podcast
Enjoy!
New Podcast Page!
After a bit of experimentation – it seems like we’ve landed on putting the Dante Podcast as part of the Dante’s Comedy website 😊
https://dantescomedy.com/podcast
And we’re aiming to make a new series on the Purgatory soon – with 10-15 minutes commentary pr. chapter, with bigger context and symbolic interpretation!
The Boatman
This is still one of our favorite moments in the story of Purgatory – when the boat appears with over a hundred saved souls, arriving at the shores.
The Pilgrim has a reed (of Humility) around his waist, kneeling down. And the arrival partly symbolizes how we now start to approach and associate with the positive souls, the spirits who had chosen the Virtues in life.
The beginning
Reading out loud from the first two cantos of the Comedy last night, it ‘s striking how clearly the overall structure is implied, but how constrained the inner description of the Pilgrim is. The feeling of being in a small, dark space and trying to break out but being blocked. And how the reason is starting to aid the process from the beginning with different arguments, and how it is being motivated by the spiritual and the Grace of the Spiritual, symbolized by Mary, Lucia and Beatrice.
It’s also striking how strongly the Reason is chosen as the close Guide and the first building block of doing the work of the process. The first “spark” is from the spiritual, but the day to day conscious workings is being done by the rational intellect and knowledge. Entering on that “deep and rugged road”.
Vita Nuova Introduction
Aaand first version finished, for the Vita Nuova!
https://dantescomedy.com/vitanuova
Intro to the Comedy.
A first version is live!
https://dantescomedy.com/thecomedy
New week
Good morning!
Aim for the day is to write a couple of brief introductions to the Comedy as a whole, and for Vita Nuova on the new website on dantescomedy.com 😊
Happy coffee! ☕️
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