[UPDATED to the proper audio file. Now here’s the post-Hallowe’en episode.] Broadcast on Cambridge 105 the day after Hallowe’en, this episode defies the pseudo-scariness of Hallowe’en by offering a much more chilling, and a much-closer-to-home scariness, as we accompany Dante and Virgil on their journey through the Inferno, stopping now at the region of those who have been violent against themselves, or rather, the region where we can find ourselves when we are violent against ourselves, metaphorically turning ourselves into lifeless thorn bushes, beset by the Harpy monters (pictured here), who keep wailing in our ears counsels of defeat: “You’re no good”; “Give up now”; “Abandon your journey, destroy your dreams.” All this and more. You are invited to attend.
