6/17/10

71. Divine Comedy

I’m writing these seven posts after the fact, or facts as it may be, because Burbank had no access to his Blackberry for the duration of last night. The reason why will become apparent very soon.

The irony of this title is that these posts are not, in fact, comical. Burbank thinks it’s funny in retrospect, but I am still not laughing.

I explained to Burbank that the original word comedy did not mean that the stories were funny but had a happy ending, which is why Dante’s Divine Comedy is not funny either. Burbank doesn’t like this title for Dante’s piece because it gives away the ending. I’m not too worried about giving away the ending to today because as you can see, I’m still here to tell the tale.

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