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Sep. 4th, 2004 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeling"Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral". -- Garrison Keillor
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*dies laughing* The lowest circle of Hell is reserved for the Swiss. At least they'd have good chocolate. But on the other hand, it'd probably be filled with cuckoo clocks.
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*dies laughing* The lowest circle of Hell is reserved for the Swiss. At least they'd have good chocolate. But on the other hand, it'd probably be filled with cuckoo clocks.
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Date: 2004-09-04 06:33 am (UTC)I love you.
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Date: 2004-09-04 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 07:25 am (UTC)At least they'd be all nice and gooey after awhile.
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Date: 2004-09-04 07:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 08:03 am (UTC)*takes her crazy self off to bed*
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Date: 2004-09-05 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-05 06:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 10:37 am (UTC)I'm actually not certain which level of Hell was the hottest. However, according to the Inferno, those who remained neutral during crisis would be on the first ring of Hell (ante-Hell), with the unbaptized and the good/repentant Pagans.
Now here I get confused. According to Keillor, the neutrals inhabit the hottest ring of Hell. Yet, according to Dante, neutrals suffered the same fate as unbaptized children; viz., forced to walk a ring in a land before Hell with no chance of redemption or life in the light of God. I know this wasn't the hottest, because it's described as a "grassy field" (IIRC) and because later (lower) in Inferno Dante walks across fields of molten lava.
Sorry to get all academic about it, but I think Keillor's a little bit equivocal here. I could be wrong, as I last read The Inferno something like six years ago, but I swear I remember it pretty well!
(And, yes, I appreciate the levity of the Swiss on the innermost rings of Hell. The thing is, they'd only have frozen chocolate.)
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Date: 2004-09-05 06:00 pm (UTC)