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PURGATORIO, Episode 211. The Flames Don't Burn Up Irony: PURGATORIO, Canto XXVII, Lines 49 - 90

Our pilgrim, Dante, gets into the flames of lust and comes out to a call for the redeemed to enter Paradise. Except those flames don’t burn up irony. Instead, they cause us to imagine the damned Virgil inside them. And we find out that our pilgrim isn’t perhaps as redeemed as we might first think.

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