[Adam Fag]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

And ice is cold, and salt is salty.

Is there any other groundbreaking revelation you want to share?

Hell is cold.

32 Still on the lofty battlement, a voice
Bespoke me thus: "Look how thou walkest. Take
Good heed, thy soles do tread not on the heads
Of thy poor brethren." Thereupon I turn'd,
And saw before and underneath my feet
A lake, whose frozen surface liker seem'd
To glass than water...

Blue pinch'd and shrin'd in ice the spirits stood,
Moving their teeth in shrill note like the stork.
His face each downward held; their mouth the cold,
Their eyes express'd the dolour of their heart...

34 THE banners of Hell's Monarch do come forth
Towards us; therefore look, so spake my guide,
If thou discern him...

That emperor, who sways
The realm of sorrow, at mid breast from th' ice
Stood forth...

If he were beautiful
As he is hideous now, and yet did dare
To scowl upon his Maker, well from him
May all our mis'ry flow. Oh what a sight!