Word: infernos
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...Paul Gustave Dore's monumental illustrations of the Bible and of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri gave a large part of the last generation a thoroughgoing picture of Heaven and Hell. Last week at the Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work...
...Ferriter promises to produce the real murderer before midnight. He tries to confess to a priest; to his horror finds that he, the jealous lover-murderer, no longer believes in God. He rushes to the slums to drink, confess to harlots. In a scene reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, Joyce's Ulysses, he confesses himself to one of three diseased harpies who play with his disintegrating personality the way vultures play with bones...
...sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California's subsea level inferno. One Perry Brite, Kerr County supervisor, stood on Dante's Lookout and saw that 50 miles of the sink had become covered with water. In the memory of none of the inhabitants of the Valley region had so much rain fallen or so much seepage accumulated from distant snows...
...MEADOW OF DREAMS No Man's Land lies before me, That once was a Meadow Where fairies foregathered And Elfs made their play; 'Tis the saddest, most desolate Hell of a Meadow From Dante's Inferno, Since Huns had their...
...there last week. Near Gladewater, Sinclair Oil Company's No. I Cole well was brought in. Instantly the null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then nine, were finally put at seven, with two other men perhaps fatally burned...