Still Sure of the Road
Beatrice looks at the sun. Dante copies her and rises faster than lightning returning to its source. He still believes he is on earth. She has to tell him the ground has already changed. The last form of lostness in the poem is not the forest. It is the assumption that the old physics still apply after you have already left them.
Key Insight
Disorientation is sometimes evidence that you have already moved. If the old measurements no longer fit, stop insisting on the old floor. Ask what country you are actually in.
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