Hot Words & Getting Remade
Purgatorio 28-33
“Then I saw people, clad in white, who followed,
as though led by the lights, their garments
of a whiteness never seen on earth.”
(Purgatorio 29, tr. Hollander)
Purgation’s a hard climb up and back to a garden of undisturbed virtues, very nessun mi tocchi, and even the constantbreeze which blows sweetly neither rattles nor d…