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\"hypocrites<\/a>

John Flaxman, Hypocrites<\/i>, 1807<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019re recapping<\/a> the <\/em>Inferno. Read along<\/a>! This week: the hypocrites and their leaden robes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Canto 23 opens like the thematic climax of a slasher flick. Virgil and Dante\u2014picture a cinematic hero and his love interest\u2014have taken the opportunity to escape the methodical watch of the serial killer. Or killers<\/i>, in this case: our travelers have fled from a pair of the murderous Malebranche, whose naturally violent tempers have been exacerbated by the loss of their human plaything and two of their fellow demons. Dante and Virgil are trying to calculate their next move. Their cell phones don\u2019t work (hell doesn\u2019t get great reception), they cannot fight back, and so Dante, whose scalp is \u201ctaut with fear,\u201d asks Virgil to find them an out.<\/p>\n

As the demons begin to descend upon our travelers, Virgil grabs hold of Dante as a mother does her infant, and the two slide down a rock to hide. Dante says, \u201cNever did water \u2026 rush down \u2026 more swiftly than my master down that bank\u201d; and if you suspend disbelief just a bit, you can imagine that it is a coy way of saying, \u201cVirgil acted so quickly, I didn\u2019t even have time to piss myself from fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the two are unable to elude detection, they have made it to the next ditch, where the Malebranche\u2019s jurisdiction ends, and where they are therefore safe from the billhooks and the claws. It seems like a bit of a cop-out\u2014after all, if the demons were willing to disobey the divine law that protected Dante and Virgil, why weren\u2019t they weren\u2019t willing to disobey the divine law that determines the territories of hell?\u00a0 But then again, the climax in crime movies always requires a bit of imagination. Are we really supposed to believe that Jimmy Stewart was able to stun his would-be killer in Rear Window <\/i>using only the flash from his camera?<\/p>\n

In this next pocket of hell, Dante and Virgil meet the hypocrites, who are weighed down by long robes of gilded lead. They move with the same sort of sluggish indolence as the people wearing ankle-weights at the gym. Once again, Dante\u2019s accent gives him away, and two sinners stop to speak with him. (They can also tell he\u2019s alive by the way his throat moves.) Dante introduces himself using a construction similar to Francesca\u2019s, from canto 5:<\/p>\n

Dante, canto 23: \u201cIn the great city, by the fair river Arno, I was born and raised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francesca, canto 5: \u201cOn that shore where the river Po with all its tributaries slows to a peaceful flow, there I was born.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dante goes on, but before long, he\u2019s distracted by a sight that has even Virgil staring in awe: a sinner nailed to the floor as Christ was to the cross, who feels the weight as each sinner slowly walks over his body. This man is Caiaphas, who, convinced that one man should be martyred for the many, was responsible for Christ\u2019s death. The Hollanders, whose annotations to the Inferno <\/i>I\u2019ve mentioned before, suggest that Virgil may be totally captivated by this scene because Caiaphas hadn\u2019t yet died and gone to hell when Virgil passed through hell the first time\u2014meaning Virgil has never seen a man crucified to the ground before. This would also explain why Virgil is often able to remain aloof in hell, explaining the torturous scenes to Dante but remaining completely unfazed by the sinners. Here, for once, Virgil is out of his element, and Dante must learn about the hypocrites from one of their own, a sinner.<\/p>\n

Hoping to leave the hypocrites, Dante and Virgil ask for directions; they learn that the bridge leading to the next area is no longer standing, and that the demon Malacoda in canto 21 lied to them (\u201cNearby\u2019s another crag that yields a passage,\u201d Malacoda had said). It\u2019s safe to assume Malacoda didn\u2019t think Dante and Virgil would even survive long enough to find out he was lying.<\/p>\n

One of the sinners tells Virgil it probably wasn\u2019t the brightest idea to trust Malacoda\u2014the devil is, after all, the father of all lies. Virgil, irate and probably feeling quite like a moron, struts off in \u201clong strides,\u201d to mock the sinners who are weighed down by their robes. Dante follows in his footsteps.<\/p>\n

To catch up on our Dante series, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Aciman is the author of <\/em>Twitterature<\/a>. He has written for the <\/em>New York Times, <\/em>Tablet, the <\/em>Wall Street Journal, and <\/em>TIME. Follow him on Twitter at @acimania<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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