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Inferno Canto 28

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Gustave Doré, Canto XXVIII

Prose and poetry both happen in the body, though they are made, as Houellebecq once said while smoking an energetic cigarette on stage, from different materials. Here in the ninth abyss, even untrammeled words could not recount the terror and wounds that Dante saw. Or so he says at the ostentatious opening to one of the goriest…

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