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A LESSON FROM DANTE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040412
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IN THE ARTICLE ON RICHARD CLARKE ("CONSERVATIVE SIDE SHOWED IN HUB DAYS," PAGE A1, MARCH 29) POET DANTE ALIGHIERI IS QUOTED AS STATING, "THE HOTTEST PLACES IN HELL ARE RESERVED FOR THOSE, WHO IN A TIME OF GREAT CRISIS, MAINTAIN THEIR NEUTRALITY." This gives the impression that the worst part of Dante's Inferno is very hot. While it is hot in most places, the lowest depths of hell are made of ice (yes, Dante's hell is frozen over), and Dante plants the worst sinners, the betrayers, in this icy depth.

As for those that kept their neutrality, Dante does not place them in Hell proper but ...

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