{"id":356,"date":"2005-05-08T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T22:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=356"},"modified":"2005-05-08T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2005-05-08T22:53:23","slug":"in-hell-the-punishment-is-just-the-sin-without-the-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/05\/08\/in-hell-the-punishment-is-just-the-sin-without-the-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"In hell the punishment is just the sin without the illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Sayers provides an awesome introduction to Dante&#8217;s <i>Divine Comedy<\/i> (in the Penguin Classics edition). Talking about the Black Wind of Canto 5, Lust (&#8216;<i>The infernal whirlwind, which never rests, drives the spirits before its violence; turning and striking, it tortures them&#8230;.And as their winds carry off the starlings in the cold season, in large full flocks, so does that breath carry the evil spirits here, there, down, up; no hope ever comforts them, not of lessened suffering, much less of rest.<\/i>&#8216;) she says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>As the lovers drifted into self-indulgence and were carried away by their passions, so now they drift forever. The bright, voluptuous sin is now seen<\/i> as it is<i> &#8211; a howling darkness of helpless discomfort. (The &#8216;punishment&#8217; for sin is simply the sin itself, experienced without the illusion&#8230;)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Sayers provides an awesome introduction to Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy (in the Penguin Classics edition). Talking about the Black Wind of Canto 5, Lust (&#8216;The infernal whirlwind, which never rests, drives the spirits before its violence; turning and striking, it tortures them&#8230;.And as their winds carry off the starlings in the cold season, in large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-5K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}