[Moo] Funny, Dante Never Mentioned the Wheelbarrows

[Bertran]

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the Wheelbarrows via Got Medieval by noreply at blogger.com (Got Medieval)
on 8/2/10
As we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And as
you all know, it's been my intention to offer my readers a diverting
image from the margins of a medieval manuscript at regular one-week
intervals--but hell if I can't actually seem to stick to that schedule.
I promise I'll be a good boy from here on out, really I will, just
please don't let me end up like these poor souls from the margins of
The Taymouth Hours (a fourteenth-century English book of hours
currently held at the British Library):


Actually, come to think of it the flaming-wheelbarrow-borne have a
pretty sweet deal compared to the other damned souls in the margins in
Taymouth. These guys on the left below have to make do with much more
cramped quarters:


Then again, a piggyback ride in a demon's basket is high cotton
compared to these fellows, who don't even get the dignity of baskets:



Then again again, I suppose it doesn't matter whether you get folded up
into little ball and carried over a demon's shoulders or if you get a
pimped out flaming wheelbarrow. In the end, it's straight into the
hellmouth for everybody:



Though one wonders where the demon in the far right margin thinks he's
going with that one sinner, exactly. Apparently, even Satan has a
problem with employees helping themselves to the inventory. In his
defense, I suppose the demon could always say, "Hellloooo, demon here,
remember? Personification of all sin and vice? That ring a bell?"


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