You Can't Crack the Damned Thing Without Knowing the Biblical Stories

The humanities have been mated so badly again, i think that has mostly to do with resentment and hatred more than anything else. You can't get a grip on the humanities without knowing the biblical stories because they're the dream out of which the humanities emerge. And dante's inferno would be one of those - an absolutely amazing piece of work. N milton wrote it because he wanted to justify the ways of god to man. He took the problem seriously. It's like, it's the mephistophelian problem, is that, wel, this is a rough business that we're involved in, and, you know, maybe maybe we should just give it up.