It's hell.

N.B.: I am away celebrating my 40th anniversary with my Lovely First Wife in New York City. This is a scheduled post.

Who among us has not needed at one point or another a map of Dante's Inferno?  I know I needed one to write a waspish review of George W. Bush's presidency back in 2009, and who knows when I might need it again? You may need one so that you can emulate Robert Rauschenberg and do your own drawings based on the Nine Circles.

So this article at Open Culture is a great Fun Friday Resource: multiple illustrations along with commentary.

On a side note, my favorite use of Dante's schematic will take some explaining.  As you may or may not know, I worked for many years at the Georgia Governor's Honors Program, a four-week summer residential program for gifted/talented high school rising juniors and seniors. They lived in the dorms, supervised by college age RA's, most of whom were alumni of the program.

The RAs were tasked with keeping the kids busy after class ("A tired child is a good child," was our motto), specifically offering two activities a week, known as "seminars."  Seminars varied from serious study to athletic games to crafts to college advice to silliness. (Lichtenbergianism sprang from a seminar I gave in 2013, in fact.)

One night I emerged from my dorm apartment (I was asst. program director for many years, and actual director for three summers before retiring) and there in the daily posting of available seminars was "Disney In Hell."  This ought to be entertaining, I mused, and the next day, there was a wall poster of the Nine Circles with all your favorite Disney characters consigned: Pooh to Gluttonous, Aladdin to Fraudulent, Scar to Treacherous, etc. 

Gifted children?  Honey please.