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Dante was wrong. There are in fact 10 circles of hell. Article, IFA Magazine (2022)

March 22, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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On March 10, 2022, British-owned IFA Magazine posted an article titled “Dante was wrong. There are in fact 10 circles of hell.” The authors state:

“The tenth is occupied by former Government housing ministers and is named Ineptitude.

“If you’re into psychological self-flagellation, have a read. If you’re not, all you need to know is that, in the final three months of last year, a lot less houses were built than in the preceding quarter and the same quarter of 2020. In short, the housebuilding omnishambles continues apace.” [. . .]    —IFA Magazine, March 10, 2022 (retrieved March 22, 2022)

 

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: Articles, Circles of Hell, Economics, Government, Housing, Magazines, News, Tenth Circle, United Kingdom

IKEA, the 10th Circle of Hell

November 26, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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“It’s fitting that IKEA stores are organised in a series of winding circles with no easy escape. It’s not unlike the circles of hell that the protagonist of Dante’s Inferno must wander before heading on to Purgatory and then Heaven.

But unlike the soul in Dante’s epic poem, you never get to Heaven. What awaits you once you’ve managed to locate and then purchase your Tuffing and Malfors is yet another circle of hell. This one is in your own home and the instrument of torture is an Allen key.”    –Kasey Edwards, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 15, 2019

Categories: Consumer Goods, Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Circles of Hell, Essays, Furniture, Hell, IKEA, Tenth Circle

The Tenth Stage, The Tenth Stage (2006)

October 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“Australian goth-electro band the Tenth Stage has a self-titled track (2006) that describes the singer’s descent past the nine stages of Dante’s poem to a 10th stage of Hell.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2006, Australia, Circles of Hell, Electronic, Goth, Hell, Inferno, Tenth Circle

The 10th Circle of Hell is Southwest Airlines

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

 

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In her blog, Geraldine DeRuiter takes issue with her experience with Southwest Airlines’ seating policy, writing, “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE ASSIGNED SEATING. Everyone has an “it’s me or them” mentality that extends to the entire flight.  I want to sit here. . .”

“There is a special circle of hell for all of these people” [. . .]    –Geraldine DeRuiter, The Everywhereist, March 8, 2017.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Planes, Tenth Circle

The Wondering Mother’s Tenth Circle of Hell

April 23, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“Dante only wrote about the nine circles of hell because he was a man who never had to go to the DMV and the social security office in the same day.  But I have seen this place…I have experienced it…and I lived to tell the tale.

“When your beautiful, perfect, amazing child is born, there are many adult responsibilities you have to handle, in addition to cuddles.  One of those is making sure that your baby has a social security number, if for no other reason than you are going to want that tax write off come April.  Our hospital has a wonderful woman that comes to your room, helps you fill out lots of paperwork, and then mails everything to social security for you.  How wonderful!  All you have to do is wait for their card to come in the mail.

“So, I waited.

“And waited.”   –Britney Lowe, The Wondering Mother, 2019

Read the full blog entry here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Circles of Hell, Mothers, Parenting, Tenth Circle

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