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Paul's avatar

Thanks, a good reflection, I expect I'll come back to it a few times.

Quasi-related: for several years, I've taken Dante's Purgatory as my travel read anytime I fly. Like it's a book for ascending. The lines about shaking off Hell for fresh winds escape me now, but it's something I circle back to.

Daniel Rodrigues-Martin's avatar

Sort of a parallel to your thoughts here, Chase, was hearing my audiobook for the first time, and how the narrator so brilliantly captured the words through dramatic performance. It felt like a Dante/Casella moment.

Literature has a tendency to meet us where we are. Good thoughts, here.

C. W. Sachs's avatar

Thanks Danny! Yeah that has to be an incredible experience. Not just the work of creating a piece of literature, but hearing someone engage with it and breathe further life into it.