Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, Her museum, packed with artistic allegories about AI and art made with AI assistance, is presented as a memorial of humankind’s future near-miss with extinction. However, nobody can agree about whom the Greyhound represents.Recent Examples on the Web One of the song’s biggest fans: David Bowie, who sang it on his 2003 album Reality, hearing it as an allegory of drug addiction and recovery. Well, we know that this is true for Florence, given the city’s illustrious textile and banking industry and the political squabbling taking place there at the time. She’s got nothing! But even more interesting is Virgil’s explanation that a Greyhound will eventually come to kill the she-wolf and "restore low-lying Italy." This seems to imply that greed afflicts the whole country. Which explains why she represents avarice or greed. She "carr every craving in her leanness," meaning she is painfully skinny. The leopard has few physical characteristics suggesting its interpretation as fraudulence, but the prideful lion has his "head held high." The she-wolf is described most fully. Traditional interpretations have parsed the leopard as a symbol of fraudulence, the lion as a symbol of pride, and the she-wolf as a symbol of avarice or greed. The leopard, lion, and she-wolf that menace Dante in his quest to get to the sunlight all represent different types of sin. That Dante survives Hell, learns from it, and emerges unscathed (read: climbs up into the light) means that he has proven some sort of worth. This is essentially the only difference between the real world and Hell: people become their sins and suffer by them.
Except that all their little flaws are visible to everyone. And they’ve all got their little sections of Hell. Here, you’ve got all sects of humanity – laymen, clergy, lovers, wagers of war, politicians, scholars, you name it. Then you’ve got Hell itself, which is basically a microcosm of society. That his way is obstructed by the three beasts means that Dante is not yet worthy to proceed to Heaven. The dawn brings hope and the hill crowned with sunlight, which Dante strives to ascend, is the way to God. The dark woods and night might symbolize man’s sin while the path – which Dante has lost – is the virtuous man’s way of life. This is apparent from the very beginning. So Dante’s personal crisis and journey through Hell could represent every man’s moment of weakness and his descent into sin. Let’s face it, you can’t really discuss Hell and all its inhabitants without illuminating something about the society that produces such evildoers.
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