There is no third.”īy analogy, not reading “The Divine Comedy” is the same as never having seen a layup by Jordan or a touchdown pass by Brady. Eliot states this explicitly: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. Well, in literature, those guys are Billy “ The-I’m-Gonna-Kill-All-My-Characters-Bard” Shakespeare and Dante “The-Afterlife-Tourist” Alighieri. Our point is – it always boils down to a couple of guys. In football – between Jim Brown and Jerry Rice, or, lately, between Payton and Brady. In soccer, it’s between Maradona and Pele, or, more recently, between Messi and Ronaldo. So, we guess you wouldn’t mind having a walk with us through it, would you? Who Should Read “The Divine Comedy”? And Why?įor years now, whenever there has been a debate on who the greatest basketball player in history is, two names tend to appear and reappear: Michael and Kobe. In case you didn’t know till now, Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece “ The Divine Comedy” is not called “Divine” because it’s about deities it’s called “divine” because it’s, simply, that good.
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