THE DARK DISMAL DUNGEON OF DISQUIET, DESPAIR AND DOOM

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ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’entrate (Dante’s Inferno) ,

For the name of the slough is despond, where the glass is always empty, and all round is heard wailing and gnashing of teeth .

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“’There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful” (Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet) .

“Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared