“Surreal. It was his word of the week. "This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.”
“There are seven deadly sins, not just one, and Christianity's understanding of marriage and chastity is intimately bound to its views on gluttony, avarice and pride. (Recall that in the Inferno, Dante consigns gluttons, misers, and spendthrifts to lower circles of hell than adulterers and fornicators.)”
“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”
“Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”
“There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.”
“It felt like he’d been dragged through the nine circles of hell — by his testicles.”