ellauri003.html on line 914: (Limboilujen luku XXV)

ellauri003.html on line 936: lue lisää Limbon luku XXIX, mi kuvaa

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Limbo

ellauri022.html on line 1000: Elokuva Limbo oli erittäinkin hyvä kurkistus asylum seekersien kurjuuteen Skotlannin syrjäkylillä. Ja toisin kuin esim Guardianim yms länsikriitikot sepusti, sen loppu oli alavireiseltä virityxeltään juuri oikea. Trust anglo nincompoops to expect a happy closing to their own inhumane treatment of the other half. Ei tossa ole kyllä yhtään mitään happya. Afganistanilaisen kana Freddie Jr. joutui varmaan pataan Farhadin hylättyä sen.
ellauri072.html on line 206: What has gone mainly unnoticed in the various discussions of the problem is something that has puzzled me for some time. Why does Dante treat the homosexual Florentines in Inf. 16 with greater respect than any other infernal figures except those in Limbo? I do not have an answer to that question, but would like to bring it forward. Let me begin with Purg. 26. We have probably not been surprised enough at Dante's insistence that roughly half of those who sinned in lust, repented, and were saved (and are now on their way to that salvation) were homosexual. It would have been easy for him to have left the homosexuals out of Purgatory, and it is hard to imagine an early (or a later) commentator who would have objected to the omission, especially since, in Hell, homosexuality is treated, not as a sin of the flesh, but as one of violence against nature. However, for a unique instance of a commentator who is aware of Dante's unusual gesture see Trifon Gabriele on Inf. 15.46: "Non e' dubbio che 'l Poeta vuol applaudere a questo vitio quanto egli puo'. Puopa hyvinkin. Ecco, gli fa parlare di belle cose e gli fa tutti grand'uomini nelle lettere e nell'arme e nella religione, e finalmente non e' peccato ne l'Inferno o Purgatorio che egli men danni con le parole sue che questo; anzi lo polisce quanto puo' con suoi versi".
ellauri072.html on line 209: Nowhere else in Hell, after Limbo, do we hear such affection expressed for damned souls. And, given the fact that these are sodomites, Dante's desire to embrace them has a strange reverberation.
ellauri072.html on line 211: This is the only place in Hell that a group of sinners speaks courteously to Dante in a single voice ("rispuoser tutti" is the indication; again, the only similar moment occurs in Limbo -- 4.98 -- when the four poets give Dante their [unspoken?] greeting as one).
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