The Call of Beauty: Heaven for Some, Hell for Others
The anguish of the soul that refuses the Call feels everlasting.
In Canto 3 of Inferno, Dante is astonished by the sheer number of souls rushing into Charon’s boat, which will carry them straight to Hell. He wonders—why would they desire such a fate?
As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, first one and then another, till the branch surrenders all its spoils to the earth; in similar fashion did these …
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