XII/2 The Minotaur, symbol of violence against Nature, is here shown taking his first shambling steps from the womb of his mother Pasiphae who recoils in horror at the offspring of her engineered coupling with the bull (the contrivance and artifice of the union is echoed in her own mechanised vagina). The picture of this scarce-formed creature is made up of about two hundred fragments of the Boy's Own Paper and the Illustrated London News. I have preferred to picture the beast as bull-headed rather than bull-bodied: it is not clear which version Dante himself preferred and both have a long history in iconography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.