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The reader writes: It is a great blessing to live within a short drive of one’s college town. There your alumni library card can get a book your local suburban library would never have and enjoy it at the kind of coffee shop your suburb cannot support. On the table is delicious beer called Trois […]
Ames, Iowa
Ames, Iowa

The reader writes:

It is a great blessing to live within a short drive of one’s college town. There your alumni library card can get a book your local suburban library would never have and enjoy it at the kind of coffee shop your suburb cannot support. On the table is delicious beer called Trois Pistoles (on tap! Belgian style from Montreal) along with bread & oil and the Auerbach book on Dante you recommended, all accompanied by the pleasant background noise of 20-year olds ‘knowing everything’.

This read-along will also be a boon for my usual way of starting four books and finishing none, and good for a Protestant engineer who finds more interest in Catholic men-of-letters.

I also checked out Esolen’s translation, having enjoyed his writing at Touchstone, etc since the aforementioned college years. I just finished the Introduction, and I found it and his application of Purgatory with humility in Philippians 2:3-11 helpful.

This makes me very happy. Hey, any readers around Ames, Iowa, y’all might want to get together at the end of our Dante study for a beer at this place. Maybe we could have meet-ups all over at the end. It would be a nice way for this blog’s readers to get to know one another. I would be willing to drive into Baton Rouge for a big Dante meet-up over beer when we finish Purgatorio.

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