Anyone please, In Pound's "Spirit of Romance" concerning Dante's "Commedia" he writes; "Thus the 'Commedia' is, in the literal sense, a description of Dante's vision of a journey through the realms inhabited by the spirits of men after death; in a further sense it is the journey of Dante's intelligence through the states of mind wherein dwell all sorts and conditions of men before death; beyond this, Dante or Dante's intelligence may come to mean 'Everyman' or 'Mankind,' whereat his journey becomes a symbol of mankind's struggle upward out of ignorance into the clear light of philosophy. In the second sense I give here, the journey is Dante's own mental and spiritual development. In a fourth sense, the 'Commedia' is an expression of the laws of eternal justice; 'il contrapasso,' the counterpass, as Bertran calls it(5) or the law of Karma, if we are to use an Oriental term." Pound's footnote (5) reads, "Inferno, XXIV." I have looked at my copy of Dante , The Carlyle-Wicksteed translation, and I wish someone could tell me what in Book XXIV can be identified as "il contrapasso" or "the counterpass". In fact, what IS a counterpass? I would appreciate any explanation. Thank you in advancia, Charles