PURGATORIO, Episode 177. Going In Circles To Go Forward: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 115 - 129
Our pilgrim, Dante, arrives on the sixth, empty terrace of Mount Purgatory without a lot of fanfare. Instead, Statius and Virgil go ahead of him and talk about the craft of poetry. The passage is caught in the essential structural issue (and thematic one, too!) of COMEDY: circularity and linearity, fused into one state of being.
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