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School Zones Belong Inside Dante’s Inferno

July 22, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Those important pieces of classical writing that I read in college are a little fuzzy these days. That’s what happens when the music you listened to in college has been on classic rock stations for the past five years.

“But I need to reread Dante’s Inferno because I only remember (with the aid of Google) nine circles of hell in the poem.

“But I’m sure there is a 10th.

“The 10 circles of hell have to be limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery and school parking lots during pick-up/drop-off time.” […]    –Dale Miller, The Independent, September 9, 2018

Categories: Odds & Ends, Written Word
Tagged with: 2018, Circles of Hell, Driving, Inferno, Parenting, Parking lot, School, Sins, Tenth Circle, Vehicles

IKEA Parking likened to ‘Dante’s Circles of Hell’

July 15, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Shoppers at IKEA Reading have reached breaking point.

“One reviewer even went so far as to liken the car park to Dante’s inferno.

“It is absolutely dreadful! Hopeless, mind-numbingly diabolically worse than one of Dante’s circles of hell.” […]    –Khadija Taboada, InYourArea, April 14, 2018

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2018, Circles of Hell, England, Hell, IKEA, Inferno, Parking lot, United Kingdom

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