In an Easter 1984 article for the Boston Sunday Globe, Harvey Cox, author of The Feast of Fools, observed, “In his Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri reports that after he had made the tortuous ascent from hell to purgatory and then drawn close to the celestial sphere, he suddenly heard a sound he had never heard before.” Stopping and listening, Dante wrote that “it sounded like the laughter of the unive…