h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>> Is that true jwf? <<

I get most of my best 'ideas' from a cbc radio show called "Ideas". Many of their old shows are available free online as full hour audio programs. Many offer a cassette for sale and all are available as transcripts.

>> Monday, August 4
DANTE: POET OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, Part Three
Dante Alighieri was banished forever from his native Florence exactly 700 years ago. He was supposed to disappear from history. Instead, he wrote his way out of misery and loneliness, and produced a masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, guaranteeing him literary immortality. Dante did something totally unprecedented: he gave us his own vision of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory - and in a supreme act of artistic ego, made himself the hero of his own epic poem. The Divine Comedy begins with Dante lost in a darkened wood, and ends with his glimpse of the divine. His journey from Hell to Paradise is filled with horror, beauty, despair and hope. A look at the three books which make up The Divine Comedy by writer and broadcaster Greg Kelly. The series continues on August 4. <<

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/calendar/2003/08_august.html

He was the victim of a political conspiracy. While he was away as a trade ambassador for his city, his enemies staged a coup and forced even his closest friends and family to vote him into exile.

Exile is traditionally a sentence that is enforced by a threat of death should it be ignored. They hoped he would not learn of his status as an exile, blindly walking into a murderous but legal trap upon his return.

And yet, somehow, somewhere in the woods far from home, the same woods he describes in the opening pages, he hears by chance from a passing stranger that he is a wanted man. His life seemed ended that hot August night in 1303 so he took out his mighty pen and...



Your Dante society sounds like a lot of fun. Just remember it's the message not the medium. No wait maybe it's the medium ..um ..um


~jwf~

I cannot count.
I was not at level 2 in my second decade! Make that the 3rd decade,and briefy! I did not need a decade in that hell!

>> ..and briefy! <<

Psst. Pardon me ma'm but your freudian slip is showing. Not that I mind, mind. It's a pretty slip an' everythin' but just so's ya know is all.

~jwf~

good one ~jwf~!