Tiggs' Inferno

[kpennink]

T:

Since you (jokingly, I hope) posted a few times regarding how you are doomed to burn, how about providing the rest of us with your own vision of what's in store. Perhaps a three-parter, covering heaven, purgetory, and the "bowels" of hell.

Personally, I think it would have a lot of potential, updating Dante from how many hundreds of years ago? And being able to address some of those heretofore ignored issues, like how hell adapts to an masochist/sub persona. It would kind of take the fun out of things for the furies there, wouldn't it, if their victim begs for more?

Anyway, let us know if you think there is any potential there.

- Ken

 

[Guest]

Holy Hell!!!!




Okay, now that that is out of my system... Let's move on? Ya know, when I first saw this thread title, I thought What the hell did I do now? I wondered who I pissed off lately and why so many men (seems to be the males, mainly) are afraid or threatened by an outspoken woman.

Anyway, this actually has potential to it. So many ways this could go. (And, ironically, in the Faireytales story thread I asked if Biblical type stories would be welcome...!) Anywho, I don't know if I'd be a good author for this or not. I would love to write a sexual torture story, but true hell for a masochist would be to NOT be touched! (Michael, Honey, don't read this! Lies, all lies!! Beating my ass, among other things, is still a GREAT punishment!!! )

Anyway, maybe other authors will come up with "hell/torture" stories that either do or do not involve "Tiggs" as a character?

 

[kpennink]

Holy Hell!!!!

(or something similar)

. . . but true hell for a masochist would be to NOT be touched!

My thoughts exactly, but you said it a lot better.

Anyway, maybe other authors will come up with "hell/torture" stories that either do or do not involve "Tiggs" as a character?

Actually, I wasn't really thinking of involving you as a character; more like as a narrator. Ever read Dante? It has been a long time for me (>25 years!), but that's what was coming to mind.

Ah, well, this is what happens when I type whatever happens to be running through my mind at the time. 'Course if stopped to think about everything first, I'd likely come off as one of those stereotypical mimes.

- Ken

 

[Guest]

Ever read Dante?

Nope, can't say that I have.

 

[kpennink]

Okay, no wonder the subject line left you wondering. I've taken the liberty of "borrowing" the below from www.powells.com. the book/poem itself isn't an easy read, but definitely worth checking out. Oh, a challenge for everyone out there: anyone know Latin well enough to read the original? I know I couldn't even think of it, as mine is limited to the Latin on US coins.

Anyway . . .

Dante's masterpiece of medieval literature contains many levels of meaning, including the literal (Dante's trip through hell, purgatory, and paradise); the allegorical (the progression of the soul toward goodness); and the moral (what it takes to lead a good life). Dante's great love, Beatrice, is seen in the poem as the personification of love and goodness. "The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell (Inferno), they climb the mountain of Purgatory (Purgatorio); at the peak, Dante is reunited with Beatrice, who serves as his guide through Paradise (Paradisio).

 

[Chicklet]

Nope, can't say that I have.

<gasp!> Haven't read Dante, haven't read Harry Potter...what do you DO, tiggs??? = )

Chicklet

 

[Chicklet]

I totally approve of a dante-like story. I would definatly read it. I don't think I would try to write it, though...but if anyone does, I want to know!

Chicklet

 

[Guest]

<gasp!> Haven't read Dante, haven't read Harry Potter...what do you DO, tiggs??? = )

I post at Lit. lol Talk with my Boyfriend daily. Write, when inspiration comes to me. Play The Sims if not online. Read things like John Saul & Ann Rice. Work...and sleep sometimes.







(P.S. I don't know what I was thinking!! It took me now to realize I wrote "Josh Saul" instead of JOHN! But, to my defense, I was not a lot for a great part of the night.)

 

[Chicklet]

I post at Lit. lol Talk with my Boyfriend daily. Write, when inspiration comes to me. Play The Sims if not online. Read things like Josh Saul & Ann Rice. Work...and sleep sometimes.

I absolutely LOVE the sims!! I'm, like, totally obsessed. My boyfriend and I don't talk much, though, usually just argue about who gets the computer = )

Chicklet

 

[MrFrost]

nope its not that your a women its that your the only one speaking tiggs.. also on the burning in the fires of hell i think that most of us are doomed to perish in the blackest depts of hell anyhow so you wont be alone

 

[Chicklet]

I probably had a place set aside for me before I was born, when my mother was excommunicated from the catholic church LOL

 

[MrFrost]

I probably had a place set aside for me before I was born, when my mother was excommunicated from the catholic church LOL

lol

 

[fanzee1]

Lit's Devine Comedy

(or something similar)

My thoughts exactly, but you said it a lot better.

Actually, I wasn't really thinking of involving you as a character; more like as a narrator. Ever read Dante? It has been a long time for me (>25 years!), but that's what was coming to mind.

Ah, well, this is what happens when I type whatever happens to be running through my mind at the time. 'Course if stopped to think about everything first, I'd likely come off as one of those stereotypical mimes.

- Ken

Y'know, actually, if the Lit world parallels Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, then surely Tiggs is Beatrice, Dante's Celestial guide through Paradise, no? Truthfully, i don't know anyone around here who points more people in the right direction on these boards (whether that's where they want to go or not! ) than Tiggs.

cool idea gang. The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works ever written.

So many. I had not known Lit had undone so many!

Love it!