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Canto XXXII<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019re recapping<\/a> the <\/em>Inferno. Read along<\/a>! This week: breaking news from the thirty-second canto<\/em>.<\/p>\n

INFERNO\u2014After traveling nonstop for many hours through an array of chthonic geological obstacles, local political activist Dante Alighieri has found that the apocalyptic landscape has actually frozen over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was supposed to be traveling through hell,\u201d says Dante, who has seen everything on his journey from demons to the elusive and heavily mythologized lonza. \u201cI thought the fire and brimstone would only get hotter as we journeyed farther toward Lucifer. There\u2019s no way I could have predicted this\u2014the ice, the chill, the subzero temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discovery will undoubtedly cause an iconological fiasco, challenging our contemporary of notion of hell altogether.<\/p>\n

Dante, who has been gathering material for a yet-unnamed \u201chell project,\u201d claims he was so caught up in seeing the sights around him\u2014notably a giant wall\u2014that he didn\u2019t notice the floor made of ice in hell until a strange voice warned him to watch his step. \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing a mysterious voice warned me,\u201d he says. \u201cI could have slipped through a thin patch.\u201d Roman poet and limbo-dweller Virgil, who has accompanied Dante on the journey, added that, in Dante\u2019s defense, the giant wall was indeed very, very large. <\/p>\n

Lodged in the inexplicably ethereal frosted path is a large network of bodies, buried to the neck in ice. \u201cIt\u2019s like they\u2019re just stuck there, forever. I have no idea who would do such a thing,\u201d Dante said, describing the scene and adding that on second thought, everyone there probably had it coming.<\/p>\n

Upon seeing Dante, a pair of conjoined sinners buried in the ice began to shed tears, which quickly froze on their faces. The sinners\u2014whom Dante later learned were twins known for butting heads when they were alive\u2014were now only able to touch their foreheads to each other. \u201cI can definitely see the irony in a punishment like that,\u201d the Florentine added, snickering at his clever understanding of the infernal punishment, which will only intensify the debate over whether it is in fact worse to burn or freeze to death.<\/p>\n

Though its climate is unlike that of other areas in hell, the frozen wasteland has attracted no shortage of Florentine sinners. Traitors from both the white and black Guelph parties are present, shedding light on the petty nature of Tuscan politics. \u201cI thought I saw someone I recognized among the sinners, so I asked Virgil to wait for me, and then I may or may not have kicked the sinner in the face,\u201d says Dante, of his meeting with Bocca, a Guelph who turned against the party in battle.* Some eyewitnesses have offered a testimony suggesting Mr. Alighieri may have tripped, although all accounts agree that he then walked over to the sinner and pulled his hair in an attempt to interrogate the sinner.<\/p>\n

Dante, who undertook the journey through hell after becoming lost in a forest, sees the discovery of this cold front as a good omen for his love life: \u201cBeatrice, the woman I love, once told me that she would be with me when hell froze over\u2014those were her exact words, I kid you not. I was starting to lose hope, but now, after this, I\u2019m in it to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n

*When Bocca is kicked, he cries out \u201cWhy trample me?\u201d This bears a remarkable similarity to the line spoken by Pier delle Vigne, the human tree, in canto 13, when Dante breaks off his twig: \u201cWhy do you tear me?\u201d In fact, this entire scene may unintentionally refract the scene in canto 13; just as a pathetic shrub in 13 asks to have his fallen leaves gathered and deposited by his roots, Dante rips the hair out of this similarly immobile sinner in 32. But there\u2019s a lot of inconsistency here. Not only is Dante far more aggressive toward this frozen sinner\u2014he actually inflicts upon Bocca the same kind of indignity and pain that he lamented in canto 13. And why does Virgil keep quiet? Back in canto 8, when Dante cursed another sinner, Virgil chastised him; but in canto 32 he doesn\u2019t speak.<\/small><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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