One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought you’d never…

We are nearing the culmination of my course in medieval literature at Thales College, reading Dante’s La Vita Nuova, to be followed by his Purgatory, the second of the three divisions of the Divine Comedy, and the one most keenly…