Help me keep WALKING WITH DANTE sponsor-free. You can donate to support the podcast at this PayPal link here.We move closer to the rulers in the dale on the slope of Mount Purgatory before the main gate.Here, we encounter longing, yearning, dreaming, sadness, all at the dying day, even as someone is already anticipating sunrise (and resurrection?).Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we explore one of the most beautiful passages in all of Dante's COMEDY: human, intimate, and cosmic, all the intersections we expect of this great poet.Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[02:19] My English translation of the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, lines 1 - 18. If you'd like to read long or continue the conversation with me, please go to my website: markscarbrough.com.[04:47] The opening pseudo-simile about sailors and pilgrims.[08:27] The opening lines move us out of canonical time and into common time, leaving us with a yearning for what was.[11:32] The irony of sight in a darkening landscape.[12:43] An unknown soul and the importance of the east.[15:58] The compline hymn "Te Lucis Ante."[19:02] The third hymn of PURGATORIO.[20:58] The divided self and the ecstatic experience.[24:53] A glimpse of where we're headed.[26:29] Rereading the passage: PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, lines 1 - 18.