So. . it has come to my attention that there's somehow a "What level of
Hell would you be in?" which is based of Dante's Inferno (the most
widely-read. . though Purgatorio and Paradiso are equally as funny).
Not having taken the test myself. . .but I'd imagine it would suck to
be in some lame crappy circle of hell like Level 1-whatever.
I mean, it'd suck to be in Hell, but as long as you're there, why not
go for it all? I mean, who would you find in the other levels?Pyrrhus?
Sextus? Jacopo Rusticucci? Why not spring for the 9th circle and get
chummy with Lucifer? He'd be an interesting guy.
And it's an interesting note that Violence is ranked less and Fraud when getting you into Hell. . .
Semo perduti, e sol di tanto offesi,
che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
"Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire."
(Canto IV, 41-2)
Which if you think about it, pretty much sucks. Then again, Milton wrote,
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
(
Paradise Lost, I, 262-3)
A pretty famous line playing off of Achilles once saying in Hades,
"I would rather be serf in a poor man's house and be above the ground than reign among the dead." (
Odyssey, XI, 489-91)
Lucifer disagreed in Joost van den Vondel's
Lucifer (1654):
"Better the prince of some inferior court,
Than second, or less, in beatific light."
Any thoughts?
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