[Moo] Funny, Dante Never Mentioned the Wheelbarrows

[Marcolo DelMare]

the wheelbarrow demon is awesome. He has a face on his belly and another one
on his butt. I'm not going to think about that too much.

~M

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Bertran <bertran.de.st.jean at gmail.com>wrote:

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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
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> 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):
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> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60SkpLG9I/AAAAAAAABgI/MRlSRqPn0mY/s1600/taymouth5.PNG>
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> 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:
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> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60a2geMdI/AAAAAAAABgQ/OZR5r43pNT0/s1600/taymouth2.PNG>
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> 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:
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> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60jFH5CuI/AAAAAAAABgY/xQn0aPh2ync/s1600/taymouth3.PNG>
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> 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:
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> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdUICQZuA4/TF60pVqUr3I/AAAAAAAABgg/b0HZQFNgpAA/s1600/taymouth6.PNG>
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> 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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