“It’s not a video game and it’s not CliffsNotes–Danteworlds is ‘an integrated multimedia journey’ through Dante’s Divine Comedy. Situated somewhere in cyberspace between EverQuest and Solitaire, it’s a terrific way to lose a month’s worth of lunchtime in a cubicle. Most literary texts don’t lend themselves to the ‘integrated multimedia’ approach, which often just whisks readers off the page into biographical or literary analysis land and strands them there. But, in the case of The Divine Comedy, and perhaps other epic poetry–the Odyssey comes to mind–the approach is a perfect marriage of medium and message, launching the reader right into the allegorical action, heightening rather than dulling appreciation and comprehension.” [. . .] –Vicky Raab, The New Yorker, January 9, 2009
Image from Dante’s View, Death Valley, California
“Dr. Who: The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit” (2006)
Second series of Doctor Who, Episodes 8 and 9: The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit
“(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” by Stan Jones, 1948
“In the song, a cowboy sees a bunch of dead cowboys chasing a herd of infernal cattle across the sky. One of them warns him that he must change his ways or he will join them in this endless chase. This is reminiscent of the opportunists at the vestibule of Hell, being forced to endlessly chase after a banner.” –John Ferriss
See lyrics at Ingeb
Contributed by John Ferriss (Bowdoin, ’08)
Cgil Strike, Genova, December 2008
The sign cites (with a little alteration) from Inferno XXVI, 118-120
Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.’
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
you were not made to live your lives as brutes,
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.
(trans. Mandelbaum)
Contributed by Virginia Jewiss (Humanities Program, Yale University)
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