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From The Divine Comedy
Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Wednesday, August 25 2004, 7:01:09 (CEST)
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"And watching their shadows lashed by wind, I cried:
'Master, what souls are these the very air
lashes with its black whips from side to side?'

'The first of these whose history you would know,'
he answered me, 'was Empress of many tongues.
Mad sensuality corrupted her so

that to hide the guilt of her debauchery
she licensed all depravity alike,
and lust and law were one in her decree.

She is Semiramis of whom the tale is told [/]
how she married Ninus and succeeded him
to the throne of that wide land the Sultans hold.'

-- Canto v, Circle 2

"His face, it seemed to me, was quite as high
and wide as the bronze pine cone in St. Peter's
with the rest of him proportioned accordingly:

so that the bank, which made an apron for him
from the waist down, still left so much exposed
that three Frieslanders standing on the rim,

one on another, could not have reached his hair,
for to that point at which men's capes are buckled,
thirty good hand-spans of brute bulk rose clear.

[b]"Rafel mahee amek zabi almit,"
began a bellowed chant from the brute mouth
for which no sweeter psalmody was fit.

And my Guide in his direction: "Babbling fool,
stick to your horn and vent yourself with it
when rage or passion stir your stupid soul.

Feel there around your neck, you muddle-head,
and find the cord; and there's the horn itself,
there on your overgrown chesst." To me he said:

"His very babbling testifies the wrong
he did on earth: he is Nimrod, through whose evil
mankind no longer speaks a common tongue.

Waste no words on him: it would be foolish.
To him all speech is meaningless; as his own,
which no one understands, is simply gibberish."

-- Canto XXXI: The Central Pit

.....so as you can see, our Queen Shumirum is at a much better place in hell - according to Dante - then King Nimrod. Poor guy.


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parhad wrote:
>Paul Younan wrote:
>>>..the design is indeed pretty...the bloody cross we could have done without...I mean literally and for our entire history.
>>
>>Glad you enjoyed it. I know you were hoping to see some Puritans or Nazis there, but they wouldn't be allowed in.
>
>...they're here and well represented already....
>>
>>>...Our language is beautiful...but then so is Arabic...if it was good enough for Khalil Gibran it's more than that for me.
>>
>>Arabic is a latecomer and descendant of Aramaic - the official language of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Persian empires. Three of our empires ruled with this language.
>
>...what does that have to do with anything? Who said it wasn'tr beautiful? I notice you use English...what is your point?
>>
>>>...and there is no heaven and I for one would be pissed as hell to wake up there and find myself with nothing to do for an eternity but gaze into the face of the greatest mass murdering, serial killing son of a bitch the world has EVER known.
>>
>>Don't fret - Ashur won't be there. His perch will be below.
>
>...trite
>>
>>-Paul



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