divine comedy – The Commonplace Notebook

Innocent Until Proven Guiltless

If I was lucky, I’d get to go to Hell.

The walk to the courtroom was nerve-wracking, I’ll admit, but it sure beat sitting in that endless void of a waiting room called Limbo for who-knows-how-many-centuries. I was ready to get this over with, and my defense attorney and I were confident that I had an infallible case.

The 9 Circles of Stupidity

It is a little known fact that the Inferno was not Dante’s first adventure. Before he met Virgil in the dark woods, he chanced upon another hierarchy—one that has remained a secret until now.