[Moo] Funny, Dante Never Mentioned the Wheelbarrows

[SiegfriedMcClure at aol.com]

I must admit, I was looking for a rapier on the demon before I realized  
which Dante you were referencing.
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/8/2010 9:48:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bertran.de.st.jean at gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
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_Funny,  Dante Never Mentioned the Wheelbarrows_ 
(http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/08/funny-dante-never-mentioned.html) 

via _Got Medieval_ (http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/)  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):

 
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60SkpLG9I/AAAAAAAABgI/MRlSRqPn0mY/s1600/taymouth5.PNG) 


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:

 
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60a2geMdI/AAAAAAAABgQ/OZR5r43pNT0/s1600/taymouth2.PNG) 


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:

 
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60jFH5CuI/AAAAAAAABgY/xQn0aPh2ync/s1600/taymouth3.PNG) 



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:

 
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60pVqUr3I/AAAAAAAABgg/b0HZQFNgpAA/s1600/taymouth6.PNG) 





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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