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Infernal News

Here’s a flash of infernal news that will no condemned soul amuse. Tortures long in practice but antiquated have now all been newly updated. The mastermind and torturer? Who else but the master Dante Alighieri himself and who well beyond a bungling apprentice proved he was the master of his practice.

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Date: 9/10/2023 8:08:00 AM
Better infernal than internal, Maurice. There's nothing funny about Dante's Divine Comedy. Your posts today are covering a gamut of genres. Each well written.
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Maurice Rigoler
Date: 9/10/2023 9:19:00 AM
In Dante's day a comedy did not signify anything funny; just a long narrative poem with an ending opposite to a tragedy and ending in triumph or some other positive outcome. The ending of Dante's "comedy" is heaven not Hell or purgatory. Sadly the Catholic religion incorporated much of Dante's personal tortures about Hell and Purgatory. / Maurice

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