Alchemical weathers
Inferno Canto VI; hell's third circle; Florida; palm trees; eternal rain; sulfur-salt-mercury; Bogie and Bacall; Key Largo; Wallace Stevens; glimmers in the gray
Let us remember that the souls in hell are bodiless but still undergo physical torments. Here in the third circle, a three-headed dog barking over the wraiths thus submerged, a great gray gluttony noised by sludge-like rain. All lie prone. Post-swoon, Dante traverses the weird weathers with…