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In the dread wood with Dante. And: Mon Valley Apocalypse,' plus 'A Dissident's Creed'

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Jan 06, 2021
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Detail from ‘Mon Valley Apocalypse’ by Nathan Van Patter

In last night’s newsletter (“Circles Within Circles”), when we left Dante and Virgil, they were standing outside the Gates of Dis, in the Inferno. The Furies came swarming in from above, bearing the head of Medusa, a glance upon which would have turned the pilgrim Dante to stone, had Virgil not shi…

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