AtDTDA [38] p. 1084/1085: Bending Light, Creating Invisibility

[Monte Davis]

Robinlandseadel quotes:

> in the bright flowerlike heart of a perfect hyper-hyperboloid 
> that only Miles can see in its entirety

At the apex of Paradise in Cantos 31-33, Dante is in the "Rose Bowl," seeing
the blessed in their concentric ranks:

"Canst thou behold from seat to seat descending
Down in gradation, as with each one's name
I through the Rose go down from leaf to leaf."

And a few lines before the transcendent end, he tried to describe the divine
appariution of "light in light":
 
"Like the geometer who tries to square the circle, and for all his thought
cannot discover the principle he lacks... I tried to see how the image fit
the circle, and how it found [placed] itself there."