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What’s Bad is Good for You, Part 13…
source: Babble.com Uttering expletives when you hurt yourself is a sensible policy, according to scientists who have shown swearing can help reduce pain. A study by Keele University researchers found...
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The detritus of empire…
As the USSR fell apart, many of its military outposts were simply abandoned. Photographer Eric Lusito travelled from East Germany to Mongolia and from Poland to Kazakhstan in search of these former...
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Casting a spell: spelling “aghast”…
source Don’t be left out; join in the fun! Play Oxford Dictionaries On-Line Spelling Bee! *** As we chant to ourselves “‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’,” we might send mysterious birthday greetings...
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“When I had journeyed half of our life’s way…”*
Surely the best-known artist to illustrate The Divine Comedy, Dante’s tour of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, was Gustave Doré, whose iconic folio was published in 1861. But countless artists– from...
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“Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of Hell and...
click here for enlargeable and navigable version From the remarkable Russian periodical, INFOGRAFIKA (see also here), a handy map of Hell. per the title of this post, one just never knows when it...
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“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere”*…
From Sean Tejaratchi, creator of the zine Crap Hound… More– oh, so much more– at LiarTownUSA. * Dr. Seuss ### As we revel in the ridiculous, we might pour a cup of birthday tea for English...
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“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own...
Michelangelo Caetani’s “Cross Section of Hell,” an illustration of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and part of Cornell University’s P.J. Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography (“more than 800 maps intended...
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“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality”*…
One of the most notorious examples of Waldeck’s penchant for fantasy: an elephant head in this rendition of an Ancient Mayan temple Not a lot concerning the artist, erotic publisher, explorer, and...
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“I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been...
Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Domenico di...
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“I cannot well repeat how there I entered”*…
Domenico di Michelino, La Divina Commedia di Dante, 1465 — Source A collection– and consideration– of the illustrations inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy… A man wakes deep in the woods, halfway...
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