Project Dante

I've done all the canto's up to VI which I'm now working on. I skipped Canto II altogether for the moment, I just couldn't get it to work. I'll deal with it later, maybe when I figure out how to end the entire thing after XXXIV. More on that later. I've done a lot of sketching and I think I have Virgil and Dante designed somewhat to my liking but nearly everything else is in a state of flux.

I have to say that things are going faster than I thought they might. Perhaps because the story and framework are already provided, I don't know yet. Anyway, the Inferno is turning out to be a fascinating study.

I told my father what I was doing when he was here on vacation (as you Americans say.) He seemed somewhat shocked asking 'do you know what thats about?' I know what its about, who else does, no one really seems to have read it. It sometimes appears that as a species we don't particularly have need for the thing instead of the symbol. What I mean is that 'Dante' or the 'Inferno' is enough, basically we have replaced the entire poem with a reference to its author or its first part. But whats inside? Maybe it doesn't matter and things such as this contain something different for each person. Maybe the very reference of 'Dante' simply conjures up for us our own level within its boundaries. It is enough that it be and that someone else has read it.