Spellbinding, mercurial, hallucinatory, exuberant, tragic … aw hell, man, those are a lot of heavy words, but have you heard Lee Morgan's music?
"In my texts, desire is sad, pleasure is tragic and crime is hell itself.
Unloved and penniless, tragic Oliver goes through hell at the orphanage before running away, falling in with thieves and being rescued by a kindly old man.
Despite our tragic loss, and the hell that I watched Micah endure, my body somehow managed to continue to make milk.
Tragic hero or tragic traitor?
So now the title just suggests Don Juan, the fictional Spanish libertine whose womanizing ways lead to — depending on who tells or sings the tale — comic and tragic fates, including a descent into hell and an ascent into redemptive love.
Still, as Hilton's Faustus sees death and the terrors of hell approaching, the return into tragic mode isn't achieved.
The speaker is a contemporary version of Dante's tragic heroine Francesca, condemned to suffer in Hell with her lover, Paolo.
For Maiuri, he was "like a beggar on the church steps … A tragic figure from one of Dante's circles of hell".
I'm not saying circumstances can't be painful, or tragic, or constraining, or unfair, or suppressive as all hell.
