Dr. Junius Johnson

And every bite reminds him that he's not at home and that he can't go home.

Right.

That's beautiful.

But that's right.

I mean, it's this is this is painful.

This is really, really bad news.

There are times when some of the souls in Inferno seem like they wanted to kind of let this out.

Like, oh, yeah, I've got a secret about you.

But, yeah, it comes here because I think you're right about that, that he is he still gets something.

worth holding on to, something that matters to him, that he hasn't yet let it go so that it can come back to him in the right way, so they can come back to him transformed.

And just as throughout this poem, he's got to, his eyes have to keep getting changed.

They get overwhelmed by the light and then they slowly grow accustomed to it.

And that allows him to see more light.

So he's also got to, it's interesting.

This is not a purgation thing.

This is not a sinful thing because all that stuff was dealt with in purgatory.

This is a non-sinful personal block still, a misorientation.

His loves are still slightly out of alignment, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, there's that lovely image applied to the patriarchs in the Vulgate.