Source work

The Divine Comedy

Original authorDante Alighieri
First publishedc. 1308–1321
Public domainConfirmed
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Adaptation proposal

B · Inverts or challenges the source's original moral

Adaptation note

Proposal B keeps the poem's three-realm structure (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, eight chapters each), the pilgrim led first by a rational guide and then by love, and the descent, the ascent and the final vision, while rereading the three realms as stages of one system: collapse into deadlock, repair by gradual descent, and convergence into a geometry of light.

Adapted into

  • The Recursive Compilation of the Cosmos cover

    Classics Adaptation · Philosophical Sci-Fi · Epic · Serialized Fiction

    The Recursive Compilation of the Cosmos

    Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

    Midway through a mortal life, a traveler wakes in a dark wood and follows a rational guide down through an abyss of deadlocks, up a mountain of gradual repair, and out into spheres of light where the whole cosmos turns out to be one volume bound by love. Twenty-four chapters in three volumes of eight: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso.