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Turns out the Gates of Hell are in Emma’s magical basement in her house (did I get that right??)
Found a screen shot of the gates. In keeping with fine upstanding literary tradition, the inscription is pulled from Dante’s Inferno. When the poet and his guide Virgil pass through the gates into Limbo and then into the circles of Hell, they read:
THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of Power divine,
Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Speaking of literary allusions…. credit to @runaroundmacy for sending this to me 🙂
I wonder if Hades finds Faust funny. Heck, I wonder if Faust was written about *him* and his interactions with the German protagonist.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"All of these clever literary allusions. Too bad the show’s own plot isn’t nearly so clever anymore.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
All of these clever literary allusions. Too bad the show’s own plot isn’t nearly so clever anymore.
Yup. Not to mention that they’re careening into Hades=Mephistopheles territory, which is a little facile in my opinion. I suppose it allows them to have their cake and eat it too: draw on the European Christian tradition, while cherry-picking their Ancient Greek myths. I would’ve preferred if they did their own interpretation of Hades as Hades, not doing this pot pourri of 19th-20ty century Devil meets the Romantic tradition without calling a spade a spade.
Is that meant to be Once’s Pain and Panic walking behind Rumple?
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixIs that meant to be Once’s Pain and Panic walking behind Rumple?
It is now!
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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