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ОглавлениеTo follow is to be guided.
When I was a boy, I knew a man who’d been a big-game guide in the Yukon until his cabin at Burwash Landing burned down and he came to live with us in our fishing village on the Salish Sea.
Dante’s famous guide to the underworld was the Roman poet Virgil, whose family had been displaced from their land in the shift from the Republic to the Empire.
In Book VI of Virgil’s Aeneid, a pair of doves9 guides Aeneas to the Golden Bough. Aeneas must return the bough to a sibyl from the Temple of Apollo.
In exchange, she guides him to the Gates of Dis, as has been prophesized.
