by Jacob | Jan 15, 2025 | Episodes
Up the mountain! You may think we’re going to get into Paradise, but no, that doesn’t happen for another three cantos yet and in another book entirely, so…maybe two years… ...
by Jacob | Jan 3, 2025 | Episodes
We’re climbing the mountain, we can even see Heaven from here! In this episode Jacob gets “silverpoint” wrong, acceptable gay/Italian greeting kisses are briefly discussed, and there is, wait for it, another vision…and so much foreshading!...
by Jacob | Dec 13, 2024 | Episodes
Still climbing the mountain with Dante as we continue “Purgatorio,” cantos 9-17. We discuss P on Dante’s face, what’s the point of absolution anyway, reader burnout, mansplaining angels, and more!...
by Jacob | Nov 20, 2024 | Episodes
https://media.blubrry.com/dispatchist/content.blubrry.com/dispatchist/e90-11-20-24.mp3 It’s Infernovember again! We’re tackling “Purgatorio” this month, which the hosts are finding challenging, rewarding, and not quite so sensational as some of...
by Jacob | Nov 15, 2024 | Episodes
https://media.blubrry.com/dispatchist/content.blubrry.com/dispatchist/E89_11-1-24.mp3 Back to hell! We open up two of Christianity’s first hell-journeys, the apocalypses of Peter and Paul. I think we were a bit kind to these two often sadistic texts, what do you...
by Jacob | Oct 25, 2024 | Episodes
https://media.blubrry.com/dispatchist/content.blubrry.com/dispatchist/E88_10-24-24.mp3 In fairness, it’s easy to make a confusing muddle out of the Testament of Solomon, because it’s already, like, three confusing muddles....
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