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Stephen Downes

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Why has Dante's Inferno suddenly gained in popularity? Perhaps it's because it is lietrature that appeals to a culture that is beginning to think in images rather than words. "Dante's poetry is made up of such visions. They have a hallucinatory power, and their emotional force is clear even to a reader bored by the Aristotelian logic that makes Dante see usury as a sin of violence rather than a sin of avarice."

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