Dante set out in his poem to go beyond human experience, to ‘trasumanar’, but the process has not been entirely one-way. He didn’t arrive empty-handed. He came to heaven armed with the vernacular, with an image of the woman he loved and of the city he grew up in, and also with an attachment to classical literature that he wasn’t going to let Christianity deprive him of. Putting his own people there, he came to heaven to humanise – and Tuscanise – the place.
Milton with his patristic misogyny was also a victim of his time
For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.’ Oooops.
Milton’s lament for his blindness at the beginning of Book III of Paradise Lost: ‘Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down/The dark descent, and up to reascend,/Though hard and rare … ’ This sense of the hardness, sharpness and steepness of exile, embedded as it is in the middle of heaven, oddly makes heaven itself a site of exile, with its own staircases belonging to Another.
But up and down are utiltarian notions, just as the sky as a canopy up there is a nonsenes, there is no such thing as the sky, these are all utilitarain notions. Up and down are spatial metaphors.
and Marx...well of course the pie has to be equally shared, that in itself is a Christian notion
but how do you make the pie bigger?...enter the stalking horse of global capitalism
and post that the raging argument between austerity and growth.
Milton with his patristic misogyny was also a victim of his time
For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.’ Oooops.
Milton’s lament for his blindness at the beginning of Book III of Paradise Lost: ‘Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down/The dark descent, and up to reascend,/Though hard and rare … ’ This sense of the hardness, sharpness and steepness of exile, embedded as it is in the middle of heaven, oddly makes heaven itself a site of exile, with its own staircases belonging to Another.
But up and down are utiltarian notions, just as the sky as a canopy up there is a nonsenes, there is no such thing as the sky, these are all utilitarain notions. Up and down are spatial metaphors.
and Marx...well of course the pie has to be equally shared, that in itself is a Christian notion
but how do you make the pie bigger?...enter the stalking horse of global capitalism
and post that the raging argument between austerity and growth.
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