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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Importance of Comedy in Dante's Comedy

I just keep having Dante that's just keep flashing back at me You know because it seems like Dante is working all this out in the comedy. His whole thing is about arrows basically right? That would be Dante everything that he writes is about arrows Everything is about how the problem of desire and the proper alignment of desire are dealt with. And then in some ways that's also what Dante does is to reconcile tragedy and comedy in that text. Although I would just point out though The inferno does have comedy in it remember those uh those demons who are like In the bud and they're chasing around and all this stuff.

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