very bottom of the universe
Inferno's 9th circle
moon beneath their feet.
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“I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise – a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames – but still a paradise.” (Nabokov)
“Farther on I saw a thousand doglike faces,
purple from the cold. That’s why I shudder,
and always will, when I see a frozen pond.” (Dante, Inferno XXXII)
