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...never forget the first time it happened to me," says one guard, who like all of those interviewed for this article, insisted on anonymity. "I opened up the classroom to lock up, and that's when I saw them. The first thing I said was: 'What the hell do you think you're doing?" But as soon as that was out of my mouth, I thought to myself, 'That's a pretty stupid question...
...main draw of Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...
...addition to its vibrant language, students will find this edition of the Inferno helpful for its reference chart which serves as a key to Dante's plan of hell. The guide lists each canto, its locale in hell, the endemic demons, the classes of souls and the names of the individual sinners who reside there. Extensive notes by Nicole Pinsky, a daughter of the translator and thirty-five black-and-white monotypes by the illustrator Michael Mazur (a department) add to this edition's offerings...
...provocative foreword by Dante's doyen John Freccero is as much troubling as it is enlightening. Freccero makes some insightful observations, most notably about the tension between characters 'historical identities and their allegorical functions in the Comedy but his treatment of the administration of justice in hell is not fully developed...
That is the most significant change in the community since the end of World War II, and it is upsetting to those who believe that Jews who leave Russia should be going to Israel, even the U.S., but in no case to Germany. ``They are going from one hell to another,'' says Dov Shilansky, a member of the Israeli parliament from the rightist Likud group. ``They are living next to people who killed their brethren.'' But many of those who live in Germany argue that they have a right, even a duty, to remain. ``If all of us fled Germany...