Talk:The Divine Tragedy/@comment-25021327-20151020230630/@comment-27007387-20151021080937

Maybe I've been overestimating the reader a bit in the amount of thought I put into leaving certain hints and implications. But, the title tells you a lot more than you might expect. The Divine Tragedy is a reference to Dante's Divine Comedy. Which is a story about hell. Hence the unhappy ending. I guess that reference isn't as obvious as I thought.

Then there's a bit of an etymological wordplay. Originally in anicent Greece, comedy did not mean so much "funny" as "happy ending." So, "downfall of the happy ending" is a direct play on how Dante's work was a comedy.

The stillborn also never actually lived as a human, never knew what the distinction was between his non-existence, and that of existence itself. He was simply put into the land of the dead without having a life to compare it to. So, at least, to me. When you think about that, it's not so strange. He had literally no way of telling he was dead. He didn't know. Explaining life to a dead man who never lived must be like explaining colours to the blind, was my reasoning.

I guess I should've conveyed that better.

Hope this answers your questions, though, and, I'll try not to take for granted that the reader lives in my head in the future.