Sometimes I get an urge to reread a book not on my evening agenda. Tonight it will be a section from

Dante’s Inferno (XXVII— including the footnotes)

“He carried me to Minos, who coiled his tail eight times around his scaly back and, having gnawed it in his awful rage,

'said: "Here comes a sinner for the thieving fire?

And so, just as you see me, I am damned, cloaked as I am. And as I go, I grieve’

Once he had brought his words to this conclusion, the weeping flame departed, twisting and tossing its pointed horn.

We continued on our way, my guide and I, over the ridge and up the arch that spans the ditch where those are paid their due who, for disjoining, gather up their load.”

~Dante #TheInferno translated by Robert Hollander AND Jean Hollander