Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.. . .
I cannot repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.
-Dante's Inferno, Canto I
"For the straightforward pathway had been lost.. . ."
Dante, you crafty ingenious old fool, how could you know me so well?
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"Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda, e passa." (Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on.)
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