On a Lighter Note
I saw this on Catholic and Enjoying It a journal written by my water-brother Mark Shea (who groks were I am only an egg):
Dante’s Inferno:
Mark Shea’s comment:
They’ve changed things a teensy tiny bit. Now Dante is a beefed up veteran of the crusades who seizes Death’s scythe to plunge the depths of hell and rescue Beatrice’s soul, which has been stolen by Lucifer after she was brutally murdered while her love was away at war.
Vast volumes of social anthropology could be written to describe the change in world view between the the actual Dante and the people who wrote this game.
My comment: So very wrong you could not explain it, even with charts.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
April 1, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
