Warning: I'm going to start this post with a completely useless, and possibly even frivolous, literary and philosophical question.
Here goes: How would la Commedia Divina have been different if Dante could not see the entrance to the underworld as he entered it?
Of course, we'll never know the answer. Or, for that matter, we'll never know what Dante might have written if he'd been with me instead of Virgil and he was at Hell Gate instead of the gate of Hell.
One of the thickest fogs I've seen in New York cocooned the area. While crossing the Queens span of the Triboro bridge, I could not even see the cables just a few feet to my right, let alone the railroad trestle that spans the Hell Gate channel just a few hundred meters upstream.
I sure was glad not to be driving.
Here goes: How would la Commedia Divina have been different if Dante could not see the entrance to the underworld as he entered it?
Of course, we'll never know the answer. Or, for that matter, we'll never know what Dante might have written if he'd been with me instead of Virgil and he was at Hell Gate instead of the gate of Hell.
One of the thickest fogs I've seen in New York cocooned the area. While crossing the Queens span of the Triboro bridge, I could not even see the cables just a few feet to my right, let alone the railroad trestle that spans the Hell Gate channel just a few hundred meters upstream.
I sure was glad not to be driving.
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