Saturday, January 26, 2008

Regarding the Whereabouts of Kenneth Lay...

This is an addition to Canto XXII, and can be placed at the very end.


When the Malebranche returned the Narravese did not
accompany them, instead faces that expressed
indescribable pain of two new to the travelers

were dragged behind Alichino and Calcabrina.
One was deeply charred from the boiling tar pits
below, while the other kept his lively state.

Using their razor sharp claws, the devil’s ripped the
deep-fried man into segments and fed them to the
one who had been spared the Ketucky Fried Treatment.

The man howled, “We were far from the smartest
men in the room, and to fill our stomachs with
our bodies built of lies is just.” He then

used his dulled, yellowed teeth to rip into the flesh
of his business partner. Almost immediately
a rancid black bile poured out of the man's

bunghole. Using his robe to mask the vile odor,
the Pilgrim approached the man and demanded he
share his name if he desired to be famous

on the surface. The man cried as turned to look
at what were now the remains of his digested
partner and said, "My name is Jeffery Skilling,

and my fate is as definite as my brother's
daily forecasts: always cloudy with inexplicable
pain. Now leave me and the runny remains

of my friend rest in peace." To that, he fell
and lathered himself in the fecal remnants
of his disposed friend. We quickly left.

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Question: If Dante lived now, and decided to again write about Muhammad being in Hell, would a fatwa have been placed on his life? Likelihood of someone fulfilling a mufti's request?

Answer: With Wikipedia proving yet again to be one of the most helpful of sources, it discusses at length that Dante would have been revered to a degree in the Muslim world for apparently having constructed a version of Hell that was accessible to both Christians and Muslims. Though there have been arguments against Dante's access to Muslim texts that would have helped him construct such a universe, according to sources, such as Maria Corti who was an Italian philologist, that there were Muslim texts that had been translated into Italian during the 12th century, resulting in their availability to Dante. So, since his work has been considered acceptable by Muslim's, it is unlikely that a mufti would have asked for Dante's life to be taken, and even if he had, its doubtful that he would have been killed as a result. I mean, if Salman Rushdie has survived his fatwa, I think Dante could as well.

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