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When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
— Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Halfway through life, the speaker discovers that the right path has been lost. A shadowed forest gives that uncertainty a place and a shape. The journey becomes more than movement through a landscape: it suggests a life whose direction is no longer clear.
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