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It’s no spoiler to point out that the brilliant Ward employs a Dantean structure as Annis makes her descent and, at last, her rebirth.

The coronavirus hit these small gatherings hard, but by meeting again, these regulars embodied the best in Dantean resistance and hope.

In a Dantean sort of way, Australia’s holiday-season infernos provided a fitting close to 2019, which has been called “the year the world woke up to the climate crisis.”

And while I am not a daily communicant, I am a daily commuter, often perspiring in the Dantean circle of hell known as the lower levels of Penn Station.

But that is not why his Dantean passages sparkle.