Dis (Divine Comedy)
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In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, the City of Dis (in Italian, la città ch'ha nome Dite, "the city whose name is Dis")[1] encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell.[2]
The most serious sins are punished here, in lower Hell. Dis is
extremely hot, and contains areas more closely resembling the common
modern conception of Hell than the upper levels.
Lower Hell, inside the walls of Dis, in an illustration by Stradanus.
There is a drop from the sixth circle to the three rings of the seventh
circle, then again to the ten rings of the eighth circle, and, at the
bottom, to the icy ninth circle.
Megan A. Conway
RDS Managing Editor
You would have thought it was enough that I have blindness
on the eyes and deafness on the ears. Not to mention the creaking in my joints
– what a pain. But now I’ve got “Dis”.
It seems that Dis is always coming up. I am on my way to
work, riding the number 6 bus and praying that I get off at the right stop,
because Dis Van, called the “Handivan” in Honolulu I kid you not, takes me half
way around the island just to go eight blocks. I flash Dis card at the driver,
who tells me that I no longer get a free ride the way I did a year ago because
the government is cracking down on Dis population. But I get half off the
“normal” fare, so Dis counts for something.
I’m at work and the first thing that pops up on my screen is
Dis news flash, “Funding cut for Dis program but Dis is nothing to worry
about.” I can’t believe Dis, but Dis day is just starting. The next email is
about Dis memo that I have to submit to our fiscal department so that I don’t
have to pay the difference in airfare between the flight I’ve booked for Dis
business trip on Hawaiian Airlines, and the “lowest available fare” that
happens to be $13.56 cheaper. I booked the Hawaiian Airlines flight because
it’s the only transpacific airline where the bulkhead actually allows room for
Dis Dog and my legs (ask me later about Dis time I stood up for the full 5 hour
trip between San Francisco and Honolulu). So Dis only stands to reason. But
when I explained Dis to fiscal I got glazed eyes until I specifically mentioned
Dis as a “special accommodation” and then I got happy looks and lots of emails
about multiple memos.
I have Dis meeting in the afternoon. I’ve learned Dis lesson
for the day, so I blast off a reminder email regarding the “special accommodation
request” that I made several days ago for the meeting because of the blindness
on the eyes and deafness on the ears.
Only before I did not call it a “special accommodation request” but I
was assured that Dis is no problem. When I arrive at the meeting Dis request
has been completely ignored and they say, “Why didn’t you tell us about Dis?” I
say, “I’ve been making Dis request for Dis organization for the past 3, 795
meetings that I’ve attended. How can you be surprised by Dis?” And they say, “Dis
is not our fault. Dis is your fault.”
So I get mad and I go home. I can’t take Dis any more. What is Dis, anyway? I calm myself. Dis is real. Dis is you, but Dis is not you. Dis is mostly everybody else.
Dis is my day. Dis is my life.
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