[On the Inferno]
>I considered that, but discounted it as, firstly, the narrator is
>arguably not dead, and, secondly it's rather passive - the narrator is
>mostly just being shown the scenery by someone else and asking
>questions,
Dante does repeat the essense of the deadly sins at every stage. For example in the ninth circle (where the traitors are frozen), he promises to scrape the ice from a damned's eyes in return for information and reneges on it on the grounds that to be mean to him was a generous reward.
So a Malkioni in hell would navigate by symbolic engagement in sin to get from place to place.
--Peter Metcalfe
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