Treatment

“Dante and Virgil are in the middle of the world, 

which is where The Devil lives. 

And Dante gets through that nodal point, 

the point of zero gravity at the center of the world, 

by shimmying down the hairy leg of the Devil, 

and finds himself in Purgatory. 

Hell lays out what’s wrong

— the hellish dimensions of life— 

and Purgatory begins the repair, what you need in order to be restored. 

You need to be treated.

The verb to treat comes from the Latin tmctus, from tmhere, 

“ to pull or drag.” 

The earliest therapists had a series of stones with increasingly smaller holes in them, and you were literally pulled through — the biggest one first, a smaller one next, until you couldn’t be pulled through any more. 

You came out of this experience minus a bit of skin, but you were treated. 

Dante is pulled through a hole from the center of the world and begins his ascent through Purgatory, its many levels and teachings.”

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