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Suzannah Rowntree
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19th century fabulists: "oh medieval people believed the earth was flat"
actual medieval people: "so, having descended to the centre of the earth and found Satan stuck in the middle like a plug in a hole, we had to climb down his body until we came to the earth's centre of gravity, then gravity flipped and we turned around and climbed UP his legs. Did you know the Antipodes has no landmass, only ocean?"
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actual medieval people: "so, having descended to the centre of the earth and found Satan stuck in the middle like a plug in a hole, we had to climb down his body until we came to the earth's centre of gravity, then gravity flipped and we turned around and climbed UP his legs. Did you know the Antipodes has no landmass, only ocean?"
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Suzannah Rowntree
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More protestants should critique highly respected churchmen with the same vim Dante critiques literal popes of his own day.
— Jan 13, 2026 05:48PM
Suzannah Rowntree
is on page 122 of 346
Dante's Hell, I suddenly realise, has the same atmosphere as only one other setting I've ever stumbled across in literature: Tolkien's Mordor.
— Jan 11, 2026 01:30PM
Suzannah Rowntree
is on page 103 of 346
maybe I'm basic but I've always had a soft spot for Francesca, and Dante writes her so compassionately.
which ALMOST makes up for the fact that he has Julius Caesar enjoying a virtuous pagan existence in Limbo while Cleopatra is being blown around in the circle of Lust.
— Jan 11, 2026 01:57AM
which ALMOST makes up for the fact that he has Julius Caesar enjoying a virtuous pagan existence in Limbo while Cleopatra is being blown around in the circle of Lust.
Suzannah Rowntree
is on page 35 of 346
the guelphs and ghibellines always do my head in
— Jan 08, 2026 12:55PM
