My artistic padlet by Kate Stoltenberg

klstolte — 2025-09-16 19:49:24 UTC

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE.

klstolte — 2025-09-16 19:49:58 UTC

"...when I arrived in the environs of Geneva; the gates- of the town were already shut..."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 19:57:25 UTC

"In despair they blasphemed God, their parents, their time on earth,

the race of Adam, and the day and the hour

and the place and the seed and the womb that gave them birth."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 19:58:41 UTC

"...instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:00:49 UTC

"And all pass over eagerly, for here

Divine Justice transforms and spurs them so

their dread turns wish: they yearn for what they fear."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:02:01 UTC

"I revolved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress towards the creation..."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:05:02 UTC

"...vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes; illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire..."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:05:45 UTC

"...then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:06:19 UTC

"Blind. like one whom sleep comes over in a swoon. I stumbled into darkness and went down."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:08:40 UTC

"The steersman of that marsh of ruined souls, 95 who wore a wheel of flame around each eye, stifled the rage that shook his woolly jowls."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:15:58 UTC

"By other windings and by other steerage

shall you cross to that other shore. Not here! Not here!"

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:16:44 UTC

"The road ran by the side of the lake, which became narrower as I approached my native town."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:19:07 UTC

"so walked at his side in silence and ashamed until we came through the dead cavern to that sunless tide."

klstolte — 2025-09-16 20:20:12 UTC

"Nights also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily."

klstolte — 2025-09-17 13:50:26 UTC

"But those unmanned and naked spirits there turned pale with fear and their teeth began to chatter at sound or his crude bellow."

klstolte — 2025-09-17 13:52:08 UTC

"No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support."

klstolte — 2025-09-17 13:55:30 UTC

"The steersman of that marsh of ruined souls, 95 who wore a wheel of flame around each eye, stifled the rage that shook his woolly jowls."

klstolte — 2025-09-17 13:57:08 UTC

"...where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me. Dispair!"