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The bored ones get the best of Hell

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May 08, 2020
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Wedged in the slime, they [the slothful] say: ‘We had been sullen in the sweet air that’s gladdened by the sun; we bore the mist of sluggishness in us: now we are bitter in the blackened mud.’ This hymn they have to gurgle in their gullets, because they cannot speak it in full words.” (Inferno 7)

Dante's Hell is a place of extreme pain and suffering. Thi…

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