Wednesday
Jul232008

A Question of Intent

Why should not old men be mad?

Young men, too.

Some have known…

I was unlucky.

A girl 

a girl?

who knew all Dante once

Live to bear children to a dunce.

They laughed at me, Kitty. 

Seeing that thou comest into such scorn by the companionship of this lady, wherefore seekest thou to behold her?

Mr. Alighieri, if you please.

S’io non perdessi le mie vertudi, e fossi libero tanto che io le potessi rispondere, io le direi, che sì tosto com’io imagino la sua mirabile bellezza, sì tosto mi giugne uno desiderio di vederla, lo quale è di tanta vertude, che uccide e distrugge ne la mia memoria, ciò che contra lui si potesse levare…

I had no choice.

…and it is therefore that the great anguish I have endured thereby is not yet enough to restrain me from seeking to behold her.

 

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