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“How long will I be on Submission? (they sob)”

December 15, 2019 By lsanchez

“The Wait haunts all stages of writing for publication. There are different levels of waiting, a bit like Dante’s circles of hell. Waiting for critique, waiting to hear from agents, waiting to receive edits, waiting for feedback on edits, waiting waiting waiting W A I T I N G.”    –Lindsay Galvin, LindsayGalvin.com, October 5, 2017

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Inferno, Tenth Circle, Writing

And the Tenth Circle of Dante’s Hell is …

August 1, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Hell, Dante tells us, has nine circles, each one reserved for souls guilty of particular sins. The greedy, for example, go to the Third Circle, while heretics are flung down into the Fourth. If you’ve lived a lustful life, full of debauchery and fornication, you will find yourself in the second circle, writhing and naked with millions of other lustful souls who — wait, how exactly is that a punishment?  According to Dante, the worst Circles of Hell are reserved for fraudsters and traitors, suggesting that he’d had an unfortunate disagreement with his publisher over royalties. But the great Italian fell short in his demonic visions, because there is another Circle of Hell: the Tenth. It is a place of infinite suffering and utter despair, echoing with the wailing of the damned. It is a movie theatre called Cinepolis Junior.” […]    –Tom Eaton, Rand Daily Mail, March 14, 2017

Categories: Consumer Goods, Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Circles of Hell, Films, Hell, Inferno, Movies, Tenth Circle, Theater

Winter Grocery Shopping With Toddlers Is The Tenth Circle Of Hell

August 1, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Grocery shopping with toddlers isn’t that much fun to begin with, but throw some -10ºF temperatures into the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for hell on earth. Frigid, snowy weather on grocery day is almost enough to convince me we’ll somehow manage to survive on a few cans of button mushrooms and a jar of olives until the next week.

“Besides trying to corral tiny people who have mastered the art of ‘walking’ but not so much the art of ‘walking without careening into every other person/cart/carefully laid out pyramid of soup cans in the store’, the main problem with winter grocery shopping with small children is that it presents a series of obnoxious choices.” […]    –Aimee Ogden, Mommyish, February 23, 2015

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2015, Children, Circles of Hell, Grocery Shopping, Hell, Parenting, Supermarkets, Tenth Circle, Toddlers

Dante’s 10th Circle of Hell Is Yoga Sculpt

August 1, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“I don’t like horror movies. I think it’s because I don’t find violence or death to be that entertaining. I’m not trying to be holier-than-thou – I just really, really dislike being scared.

“It’s probably because I’m scared all the time, anyway (it’s a byproduct of my anxiety. Basically, any time I’m alone and anything happens, I freak out). So when I see people paying for the privilege of being scared out of their minds, I am incredibly confused, and also start wondering if people would pay for the VR-experience of being Geraldine. I once had a panic attack because of a Boston Terrier. A Boston Terrier. IT’S BASICALLY THE YODA OF THE DOG WORLD AND I WAS SO SCARED I COULDN’T BREATHE. There has to be money in that, right?” […]    –Geraldine DeRuiter, The Everywhereist, January 16, 2016

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places, Written Word
Tagged with: 2016, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Hell, Tenth Circle, Travel, Travel Writing, Vietnam, Yoga

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

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