On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Gord Sellar wrote:
> Ahhhhh, well, trust me -- living in Saskatoon, I imagine hell as a VERY
> cold place, where you are naked, and everyone else seems clothed
> adequately, and you're out on the ice, and . . . brrrrr. :) I seem to
> remember an icy layer of hell, though I can't remember if it's from Dante
> or AD&D, or both . . .
It's Dante (from whom ad&d cribbed it, I'm sure). I think ice is the last
circle of hell, reserved for traitors, before you get to the devil
himself. IIRC, there's just this huge lake of ice into which people are
frozen like hapless bugs, conscious but unable to move or speak. Big
Daddy rises up out of the center, frozen to his waist, with three heads
each of which is chewing on a different sinner: Judas, Brutus, and one
who escapes me at the moment...
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
