Status Updates From Dante's Inferno: Retro Hell...

Really enjoying the narrator and the notes after, have to read the notes right after reading his prose or else it’s confusing. In love with “your soul is sunken in cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse” such perfect metaphor, so vivid. Love how he talks about the mind talking itself out of prior convictions.

“eight points on Fortune's wheel, from humility, to pance, to peace, to riches, to pride, to impatience, to war, to poverty.
This is a typical "ride" of anyone tied to Fortune's wheel, ending back at the starting point.”

“The Lady Philosophy explains to complaining Boethius that humans who suffer like to blame their misfortune on bad luck, expressed by the fortune that turns its back on them. What philosophy makes plain is that the fault lies in ourselves, in that we pitch our hopes on things we should recognize as fallible, fleeting, and of ultimately little importance.”