Cantro 7/8

pg67 Line7 "Silence, accursed wolf! Attack your own insides with your devouring rage:
Dante throws in little lines like this that make Dante's trip into Hell seem more willed by God. It connects with the Theme that Dante is going into Hell for a reason almost as a messegner to God. Otherwise he probably wouldn't be able to walk around and have Demons die in front of him.

pg69 Line56 "...how ludicrous and brief are all the goods in Fortune's Ken"
Fortune is a strumpet. For the few years that these people were on earth they enjoyed or hoarded their money without really thinking about anything else. Now they get to spend eternity in Hell thinking about nothing but winning the game they're playing much like the game of fortune they were playing on earth.

pg96 Line95 "Discharges into the marsh whose name is Styx."
I'm enjoying how each later and punishment is really just a horrible version of what they did wrong on earth. Styx is the river of Hate or Detestation that circled Hades 9 times. I assume this means that the Styx is in every layet of Dante's Hell making each layer filled with anger.

pg79 Line51 "I should like to see that spirit pickled in this swill..."
I really think Dante is going to Hell despite what he believes. So far he has dammed half the worlds population and wished to see a couple of people torn apart who are already suffering, and in the first place he put them there. I think he will be put into the layer where everybody is killing each-other above the mud.

pg81 Line81 "Above the gates I saw more than a thousand of those whom Heaven had spat like rain,.."
I think these lines are referring to Angles who were rejected from heaven who chose to follow Satan. It makes more sense now that they wouldn't open the gates to Virgil because they are still afraid of God. This also backs the idea that Virgil in on a mission of God or something along those lines.

It's also kinda appropriate that Phlegyas the guy who burnt the temple of Apollo is in the layer where everything ins constantly on fire