tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post6289975017852284671..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Communal song and prayer in Dante's PurgatoryDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-17790123201779951212018-05-15T06:56:08.210+01:002018-05-15T06:56:08.210+01:00Much is paraphrased from the exceptional Prof. Too...Much is paraphrased from the exceptional Prof. Took (not many like him, that I've ever met), but I endorse it wholeheartedly. The students for this course are such a splendid mix - UCL youth, folk from so many nations.<br /><br />I'm also conscious that Dante, like Shakespeare and Tolstoy, needs a lifetime's study. I probably have much less than half my life left, but he is now a constant companion.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-80877161116137487442018-03-22T20:19:22.698+00:002018-03-22T20:19:22.698+00:00Your closing observations are wonderful, particula...Your closing observations are wonderful, particularly, in the face of the two dimensional dumbing down we are living through now in the public sphere, this: “And that means embracing human nature in all its complexity.”Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15674930917585246294noreply@blogger.com