Between Heaven (american version, well groomed suburb, eternal service contracts for all upkeep) and Hell (working in a massage parlor for lepers next to a pesticide factory).. there is… Heck… Heck is like being stuck in slow moving traffic with nothing but a bag of cheap do-nuts and bad 70s anthem rock on the radio…
but seriously, folks… we’re entering a time of ultra-competition, on every front… for jobs, for quality of services, for medical care, for girlfriends, boy friends, resources, skills, … if you don’t have a major edge on multiple levels of your existence, you will be eaten alive… high self knowledge is one such edge…
damn - i’m a bad girl. malbolge for me too. At least i’m in good company with some of you other gangsters and thugs.
In Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy, Malebolge is the eighth circle of Hell. Roughly translated from the Italian, Malebolge means “evil ditches”. Malebolge is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches. Each trench is called a bolgia (Italian for “pouch” or “ditch”). Long causeway bridges run from the outer circumference of Malebolge to its center, pictured as spokes on a wheel. At the center of Malebolge is the ninth and final circle of hell, Cocytus.
In Dante’s version of hell, categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle (and placement within that circle) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Sinners placed in the upper circles of hell are given relatively minor punishments, while sinners in the depths of hell endure far greater torments. As the eighth of nine circles, Malebolge is one of the worst places in hell to be. In it, sinners guilty of “ordinary” fraud are punished. (That is, fraud that is committed without particularly malicious intent. Malicious or “compound” fraud — fraud that goes against bond of love, blood or honor — are punished in the ninth circle.) Sinners of this category include counterfeiters, hypocrites, sorcerers and simonists.
Dante and his guide, Virgil, make their way into Malebolge by riding on the back of the monster Geryon, the personification of fraud, who flies them down through the yawning chasm that separates the eighth circle from the seventh circle, where the violent are punished. Dante and Virgil plan on crossing Malebolge by way of the system of bridges, but find their path disturbed by many broken ledges and collapsed bridges that were destroyed during the Harrowing of Hell. They must then cross some of the bolgias on foot and even rely on demons to guide them. Eventually they make it to the inner ledge, where the Titan Antaeus lowers them down to Cocytus
baha - i missed this. so basically - Heck is Atlanta.
Malbogia= deception ? We pheroids have a strong deceptive personality streak ? Makes sense to me. I wouldn’t lie to you… honest.
Actually… this is a fascinating little discovery about “us”…
Who woulda thunk it ?
BTW…
Any remember this Strontium Dog story, Journey into Hell?
Strontium Dog Agency Files 1 - 2000AD Review
Amazon.com: Strontium Dog: The Early Cases (Strontium Dog): Books: John Wagner,Alan Grant
A bad thing related to “deception” I’ve found is when I’m trying to project the way I am to somebody, but that person wrongly assumes something else and ignores some part of me which is very evident… kind of partial blindness… does it happen to the pherotarget, partial blindness to part of us, as a side-effect of some mones, I wonder? Or is just the pherotarget’s fault or lack of self-esteem or whatever?