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# And So She Entered
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/i-vot-voshla/
- Published: 2022-11-28T10:20:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T09:25:01.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Books

And so she entered. Throwing back her veil,  
She looked at me attentively.  
I say to her: "Was it you who dictated to Dante  
The pages of the Inferno?" She replies: "I did."

*Literal translation*

"The Muse", Anna Akhmatova, 1924 and Jennifer Coolidge, *The White Lotus*, 2022

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