Washing the Face

[Chris]

Excellent points: Inferno is both a detailed map in general, and a "checklist" of sorts, going through one's inner facets.

It's fascinating too how it becomes more clarified later, that so much of the source is the lack of the spiritual "dome" above, the connection to the higher spheres and heaven.
E.g as we talked about Envy - one cannot really understand it in purely secular frames. Even more so Superbia; without objective eternal Truth, the idea of distortions becomes problematic and sometimes endless debates about values etc.

That's why the whole book is to be read again and again.

In regards to Pride, I like Mark Vernon's commentary on it. He notices when the characters are speaking and acting as "I" and when as "us".