ABSTRACT
How are evil and violence to be overcome? If we are to be saved from their grip, then we must partake of the waters of forgiveness which flow down the slopes of Mount Purgatory. However, right from the top, these waters divide: down the near slope pour the waters of Lethe, or of forgetting; down the farther side rush the waters of Eunoë, or of positive remembrance. According to Dante, this stream ‘non adopra se quinci a quindi pria non e¯ gustato [it works not if first it be not tasted on this side and on that]’.1
