Staring into #hell. Anglo-Saxon miscellany (legend of Mambres and Jannes), Canterbury ca. 1050. BL, Cotton Tiberius B V/1, fol. 87v.
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The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces #hell.
-Sir Karl Raimund #Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945
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Dante and Virgil witnessing the gigantic figure of Dis (1444–1450), from Divine Comedy.
Source: British Library
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