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Dante’s Divine Comedy is perhaps best known for the Inferno which is about Hell. It is, perhaps, a self full-filling view of the human race that it is the Inferno that everyone talks about and not the other sections that deal with Purgatory and Heaven. The human race wants Hell. Perhaps this is due to fear; perhaps it is due to a sense of superiority – he might have been famous, but at least he’s there and I’ll go here.



Today, perhaps Dante’s hell would be a store or mall in the US on Black Friday when all the insane people decide to do their shopping for themselves. I don’t get it. You can sleep in. I hope Dante would feel the same. I can just see Virgil lifting a skeptical eyebrow.