VI/3 While I was preparing this Canto, Trivier Marc, a Belgian photographer who had photographed me a year earlier, asked for another session. When he arrived, I asked him what he had been doing recently. He opened a portfolio, and on top of the pile of pictures that he had taken at an abattoir was this image of a pig which solved the problem of this particular illustration with its brutal frontality (rearality) and its repetition of the pig as the eater to be eaten in this Canto's first illustration: it also did the job of focussing on one particular glutton and is seen in the position one imagines Ciacco to be in when he keels over. Even the atmosphere, with the steam rising as if from the fetid swamp of sodden souls, seems appropriate, and the dimly seen figure could well pass for Dante the onlooker. M. Marc kindly gave me permision to use the photo which appears here as the least doctored image in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.