Tag: Sin
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May 5, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Enjoy Liszt’s “Dante Sonata” while reading today’s journey into hell. I spent a few hours last week discussing the various virtues of Dante’s Inferno. I could spend endless hours discovering the ways in which one gains knowledge of virtue through sin in Dante. …
January 8, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In December, I attended a short seminar regarding poet John Berryman’s Dream Songs. At the end of a wonderful discussion, the host commented on Berryman’s ironic, masochistic need to find trouble in a world that readily presented trouble. His father committed suicide, and …
