"Here at least we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence.
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"
🎨 Gustave Doré

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"Here at least we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence. Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." - John Milton, "Paradise Lost" 🎨Gustave Doré #BookWormSat

"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint.... My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
- C. S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters"
🎨 Tiffany Pai

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"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime'.... My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." - C. S. Lewis, "Screwtape Letters" #BookWormSat
'The Magician' is a 1908 novel by Somerset Maugham. It features an occultist named Oliver Haddo (modelled on Aleister Crowley), who seduces a young woman. In the 1926 film adaptation, she experiences a terrifying vision of Pan in Hell. #BookWormSat 📷 Hubert Stowitts as Pan.
"The mind is in its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." - John Milton, 'Paradise Lost' #BookWormSat #Milton #poetry #poetrysky
"There is only one principle in Hell. Bring back food or be food yourself." - C S Lewis, 'The Screwtape Letters' #BookWormSat #CSLewis #demonology #BookChatWeekly (I had to repost this because a Renaissance painting of Hell was AdultContent-ed. *sigh* So here's 'Calvin In Hell' by Heemskerck)
A popular subject in medieval literature & art, the Harrowing of Hell shows Christ's soul liberating the lost from Hell's mouth & restoring them to bliss: "Michael, my pure angel, receive these souls unto yourself & I shall teach you to lead them to Paradise" York play 37 #BookWormSat #MedievalSky

"Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;
And ye that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him
When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid -
Weak masters though ye be - I have bedimm'd
The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war...."
- William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

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There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s fennel for you, and columbines. Hamlet, act 4, scene 5. #ShakespeareWeek #BookWormSat 🎨John Everett Millais