[lit-ideas] Re: Speranza, "Lasciate Ogni Speranza Voi Ch'e Entrate"
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:49:49 EST
In a message dated 1/24/2010 4:14:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jwager@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
My ethics gradebook has a cover illustration of the "gate" to Inferno,
with a slight change in wording:
"Abandon all hope, ye who are entered here."
--- That is good. Dunno.
It seems contradictory to me to have that grandiose sounding motto in a
DOOR-LESS gate. I'm getting more and more familiar with the gated-communities,
which I hate. And I am told 'gated' is a misnomer _there_. They are jails!
Cheers,
JL
who gets in and out of Hell like _this_ and whose bedstand book is
Rimbaud, A season in Hell.
Villa Speranza, Bordighera
griceclub.blogspot.com
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