He guides the main character through Hell and Purgatory, pointing out dangers, giving advice, rebuking on occasion and finally withdrawing when his charge is ready to ascend to the innermost circles of the immortal world.
The common man would be drawn in low and then, in a sort of audio purgatory, be purified by BBC programming until he achieved the blessed state of voluntarily enjoying Buxtehude.
Entropy is the opposite of that, it's the outward movement towards that slow death that's always just over the horizon; a purgatory of empty eyes and hollow beauty, of faded originals and crystal clear forgeries.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken As I by yours, you've pass'd a hell of time, And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
The following two parts, " Purgatorio" and " Paradiso, " continue Dante's journey, as he scales the Mount of Purgatory and ascends the nine celestial spheres of Heaven.
All other souls, including sinners who put their faith in God, travel to a realm of temporary punishment called Purgatory, where they are purged of their sins and eventually welcomed into Heaven.