hypocrites

There in the depth we saw a painted tribe,
Who paced with tardy steps around, and wept,
Faint in appearance and o’ercome with toil.	60
Caps had they on, with hoods, that fell low down
Before their eyes, in fashion like to those
Worn by the monks in Cologne. 2 Their outside
Was overlaid with gold, dazzling to view,
But leaden all within, and of such weight,	65
That Frederick’s 3 compared to these were straw.
Oh, everlasting wearisome attire!
We yet once more with them together turn’d
To leftward, on their dismal moan intent.
But by the weight opprest, so slowly came	70
The fainting people, that our company
Was changed, at every movement of the step.

ὕβρις

drink my tears 1

and if I scan thee right, Thou needs must well remember how I aped Creative nature by my subtle art.

ARGUMENT.—Dante, at the desire of Virgil, proceeds onward to the bridge that crosses the tenth gulf, from whence he hears the cries of the alchemists and forgers, who are tormented therein; but not being able to discern anything on account of the darkness, they descend the rock, that bounds this, the last of the compartments in which the eighth circle is divided, and then behold the spirits who are afflicted by divers plagues and diseases. Two of them, namely, Grifolino of Arezzo, and Capocchio of Siena, are introduced speaking.

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Menocchio said: "I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and out of that bulk a mass formed – just as cheese is made out of milk – and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels.

regeneration chic

"O thou! who with thy fingers rendest off
Thy coat of proof,

pulse demons / eugene thacker

“I am legion”

duck / mouse / two laureates

Inferno Canto 1

(Inferno I, 28-51)
[After I had rested my wearied frame for a little I took my way again over the desert slope, keeping always the lower foot firm; and lo, almost at the beginning of the steep, a leopard light and very swift, covered with a spotted hide, and it did not go from before my face but so impeded my way that I turned many times to go back.

The time was the beginning of the morning and the sun was mounting with those stars which were with it when Divine Love first set in motion those fair things, so that the hour of the day and the sweet season moved me to good hope of escape from that beast with the gay skin; but, even so, I was put in fear by the sight of a lion which appeared to me and seemed to be coming against me holding its head high and furious with hunger so that the air seemed in dread of it, and of a she-wolf which appeared in its leanness to be charged with all cravings and which has already made many live in wretchedness]

exotic animals on loose in ohio

Second Circle

DANTE FAINTED

Pharmakon

So I have heard the lance that Achilles

Had from his father used to be the cause

First of a hurtful, then of a healing, stroke.

Inferno Canto XXXI