Dante’s Inferno: The Saga Continues

One of the sweetest fruits of friendship is the inside joke. When a buddy cuts a one-liner in company, and you are the only one to belly laugh, those on the outside are made to feel…well, outside. He is drawing from a shared history that not everyone has access to. The same thing is true with reading. Great authors like Dante often assume, or demand, that their readers have read certain works and…