INFERNO, Episode 2. Walking Up Lost: Inferno, Canto I, Lines 1 - 9

And we’re off. The opening lines of, well, the greatest work of Western literature (to date, if you must).

Here’s how it starts: a dark wood, a man alone, and a mid-life crisis—except not his, but ours.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we take the first steps on the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE and discover that the journey starts in a place that seems unimaginable but that really has roots in literary traditions all the way back to Genesis in the Bible.

Here’s my rough English translation of the opening lines:

In the middle of the journey of our life

I found myself in a dark wood

For the straight way was lost.

Ah, how hard it is to say what

That wood was, so savage and gnarled and hard

That such a thought brings back my fear.

It is so bitter that death is hardly more so—

But to discuss the good I found there

I will tell the other things I saw.

INFERNO, Episode 1. A Quick Introduction to the Podcast WALKING WITH DANTE

Join me for this short, introductory episode for the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. I’ll give you the lay of the land and ways to map the journey ahead. It’s only a stroll across the known universe. Bring a walking stick.