As a sort of aphoristic aphrodisiac, the multiple choice is a versatile form begs to be applied to subjects across the board. Let's start with hell. Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit.
Hell is
(1) "Other people" (Sartre)
(2) The title of the first section of Dante's Divine Comedy
(3) Cowering in a trench in Flanders beside the dead bodies of two fallen comrades
(4) Faculty meetings
(5) "Myself" (Milton)
(6) A book of poetry consisting entirely of unedited traffic reports
(7) A substantive formed from the Anglo-Saxon helan or behelian, cognate to "hole" (cavern) and "hollow."
(8) The edifice at the end of the road paved with good intentions
(9) An empty place populated by devils (Shakespeare)
(10) Being naked ion bed while Saul Bellow reads his just-finished novel Mr. Sammler's Planet out loud
"It's not what You Make It" (Breathe Carolina, 2011). "It's what it is, and what is is."
So what does Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8, the image above, have to do with it? Well. . .
from the archive; first posted December 7, 2014.
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