XXXIV/2 The description of the poets' emergence from the body of Hell has an anatomical character and features hints of ingestion, defecation, ejaculation and birth. As mentioned in the notes to Dante in his Study, the frontispiece of the book, any penetration into the Underworld is an image of a rape of Mother Earth. The pilgrims enter through a bushy orifice into a great enclosure: they progress through tracts and ducts and chambers in which the Humours and the Elements have their place and, in which blood and tears form canals and rivers and cataradis. Eventually, they emerge through a narrow channel, released into the open air from their first purging and ready to face the Mountain of Redemption that is denied to the world's pilgrim without some equivalent of this process of rebirth. Outside this abbreviated anatomy (reminding us that the genitals of Satan are exactly at the Earth's centre) we see the pilgrims in various orientations, to indicate their change of hemisphere as they pass this point, climbing through the forest of hair on the skin of Beelzebub. They are seen again in a chamber within this scrotal or anal fiction and again ejaculated from the penis above. In the interior text the words 'the end' (the last words of A Human Document) appear at the anus/vagina. Various details are drawn from horizontal anatomical sections supplied, as were the cadavers of CantoXXVIII, by Dr. Moxham. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.