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The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Through me you go into a city of weeping;
through me you go into eternal pain;
through me you go amongst the lost people
Dante Alighieri, The Inferno
Each sin's punishment in Inferno is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice; for example, in Canto XX, fortune‐tellers and soothsayers must walk with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is ahead, because that was what they had tried to do in life:
Divine Comedy, WikiPedia
they had their faces twisted toward their haunches
and found it necessary to walk backward,
because they could not see ahead of them.
… and since he wanted so to see ahead,
he looks behind and walks a backward path.
The Divine Comedy. Inferno ‐ Canto XX, Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself within a dark woods
where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Adagio for Strings, HAUSER
Trois Gymnopedies, Erik Satie
Emanuel, Kristina Cooper
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