“It is odd, but Hell can be a lonely place, even with so many people around. They all seem caught up in their own little worlds, running to and fro, wailing and tearing at their hair. You try to make conversation, but you can tell they are not listening.” [. . .] –Jack Handey, The New Yorker, October 30, 2006
Contributed by Darren Fishell (Bowdoin, ’09)
“Clerks” (Kevin Smith, 1994)
“The screenplay is loosely based on The Divine Comedy. The character Dante Hicks gets his name from Dante Alighieri, the author and fictional protagonist of The Divine Comedy. The chapter titles are also somewhat of a reference to the literature in that in The Divine Comedy, each level of hell is given a title. It can be said that Quick Stop is ‘Dante’s hell’.” –Sam Donovan
Contributed by Sam Donovan (Bowdoin, ’07)
“Dumb & Dumber” (Peter Farrelly, 1994)
“Infernal Entertainment”
Found at: The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 (retrieved on Oct 13, 2006)
Contributed by Peter Schwindt
Gary Larson’s The Far Side: Hell and Back
Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip The Far Side, which ran from 1980 to 1994, frequently featured hell, devils, Satan, and various forms of infernal punishment, often in Dantean fashion. In one panel, Larson illustrates a projector slide reel of the recent vacation photos of a couple. Showing a picture of a grinning Satan with his arm around a sunglasses-and-beachwear-clad woman standing in front of a raging fire, the man narrates, “Oh! Now this is from last summer, when Helen and I went to hell and back.”
Contributed by Dennis Looney
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