Desire/Wax Impressions of Dante’s Realism: Canto XVIII, lines 22-39 Purgatorio

 Dante’s beautiful lines which dicate the com-plexifications of cogntive judgment come to mind over the dicussion of Realism at Perverse Egalitarianism… Vostra apprensiva da esser verace Your perception from some real thing tragge intenzione, e dentro a voi la spiega, an impression takes, and in you it unfolds, sì che l’animo ad essa volger face; [...]

A touch more on “L’aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci”

Now that I have a bit more time. (A touch more on…) It is the succinct way that it expresses the consequences of finitude, the internal thrashing within the limits, in a brevity that itself makes almost a moral judgment upon the kinds of finitudes are best, those brief but open condensations. The line itself [...]