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- Buttmunch - 11-10-2004
Galt Wrote:I've heard about Paradise Lost and Inferno a lot. But I had stupid english professors that never had us read any good books. It was always some nigger loving hippy bullshit.DANTE wrote the books, however, since he couldn't even be considered a "new" american, it was necessary to translate his gibberish into american.
I searched on Amazon and there were like 15 different Inferno books. All with different titles, different amounts of pages, different authors. Some about comedy, etc etc etc. Which one should I be buying?
Can I just get a quick synopsis of the books and what they each about?
The different names are probably translators, editors or other similarly situated blowhards that feel they have a new insight into Dante.
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Dante wrote The Divine Comedy in what amounts to three parts, Purgatory, Inferno and Paradise.
- Galt - 11-10-2004
so the "Divine Comedy" is inclusive of both Inferno and Paradise Lost? If i buy that one book, it's all three of those parts?
- Buttmunch - 11-10-2004
No!
Paradise Lost is by John Milton, who some would argue wrote it in English.
Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Purgatorio and Inferno.
- Galt - 11-10-2004
so I should buy "The Divine Comedy" and "Paradise Lost"?
- Buttmunch - 11-10-2004
If you want to read both.
I'd recommend George R. R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series for purely entertainment purposes.
- Galt - 11-10-2004
It's a big long poem? FUCK THAT!
- Buttmunch - 11-10-2004
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse,that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumin, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.
- Galt - 11-10-2004
nigger loving hippy bullshit.
- diceisgod - 11-10-2004
Quote:Paradise Lost is by John Milton, who some would argue wrote it in English.
The copy I have of this boiok is supposedly in English. I can't get through it. I have no clue what the fuck he's talking about. I know it's supposed to be great but I guess my vocabulary and education is too limited to enjoy it.
- Arpikarhu - 11-10-2004
big surprise there
- GonzoStyle - 11-10-2004
Galt Wrote:It's a big long poem? FUCK THAT!It's well worth it.