Dante Thoughts

James Jordan · 12 Apr 2001, 18:21 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Dante Thoughts
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:21:32
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At 03:26 PM 4/12/2001 -0700, Dan'l wrote:
> >          The logical candidate for Virgil is Oreb,
>
>Actually, I think either Krait or (most likely) Sinew, both of whom
>accompany the Narr -- oh, Hell, _that_ at least is definitely all Horn
>-- to Green and are left behind there in various ways. (Yeah, okay, I
>know... Vergil is left behind at the Purgatorio-Paradiso transition,
>not the Inferno-Purgatorio transition...)

         Hmmm. I'd see those two boys as anticipations of Hoof and Hide,=20
and fitting more with the Odyssey theme, Odysseus meeting his son toward=20
the end of his journey paralleling the Narrator's meeting Hoof and Hide=20
toward the end of his. I'd still plug Oreb, for now....

>Actually, I've been puzzling over the "three beasts" of the opening of
>Inferno; that's the sort of thing Wolfe would almost certainly parallel
>in some way.

         Krait, Seawrack, and Babbie? Probably not.

> > The rest of Blue would be Limbus Patrum, Green would be Inferno proper,
> > and Whorl would be Purgatorio.
>
>Do you mean the worlds or the books?

         I meant the rest of OBW, after the fall into the pit. Sorry.

> > The real-life Beatrice, for those who may not know, was a young girl
> > that Dante fell in love with, though he and she were married.
>
>Key word missing here: "...were NOT married." Clearly JJ knows this
>and this was a typo (or brainfart or whatever).

         Duh. Mea maxima culpa.

Nutricious


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