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We should make a punning reference to every element of the story, until Barrie's estate sues us for pirating his material.
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Gori the Grey
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Why not the Dantean nine, I wonder.
Did his not get worse the lower you went? Perhaps he skived off science too?
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They became more severe, but his lowest levels are frozen. (That does not mean his highest levels are the hottest, so yeah, you give a good answer to my question; for purposes of this comic's joke, it's better not to evoke the Dantean hell (though even just levels does that, frankly)).
They thought that the way that tongues of fire leaped upward was because they were seeking their "proper" sphere in the empyrean. But that's kind of a different thing from knowing that heat rises.
Would the science of Dante's day know that heat rises? A good question.
They thought that the way that tongues of fire leaped upward was because they were seeking their "proper" sphere in the empyrean. But that's kind of a different thing from knowing that heat rises.
Dante did think, after all, that the minotaur had the body of a bull and the head of a man...
I suspect the science of Dante's day would have thought heat rose more than we do today.
As you say the element thesis had fire rising, as it is obvious in actual fire. The Chinese had hot air balloon lanterns in the 200's BC, surely the scholars of Europe must have established that hot air rises, and that is a much more accurate statement than heat rises.
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You say that, but they just plain didn't look at the world the way we do.
Like, Aristotle argued that men had more teeth than women, and they didn't just . . . go look!
Maybe hot air was at least mentioned in Anaximenes' treatise, in the 6th century BC. It was a work mostly about material properties of things.
But Dante lived 1800 years later ^^
Anyway, Thucydides mentions a fire-spewing siege engine that Thebes used to take over an Athenian (wooden) fort (iirc Socrates was also in the fort at that time; he certainly had to cover the retreat in a battle between Athens and Thebes). So they should have had people who were familiar enough with how fire works.
But Dante lived 1800 years later ^^
Anyway, Thucydides mentions a fire-spewing siege engine that Thebes used to take over an Athenian (wooden) fort (iirc Socrates was also in the fort at that time; he certainly had to cover the retreat in a battle between Athens and Thebes). So they should have had people who were familiar enough with how fire works.
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In modern America, hot air rises to the top.
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I had a nighmare that disco had made a comeback.
At first I was afraid, I was terrified.
At first I was afraid, I was terrified.
The prologue of Henry V starts, "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention". Shakespeare is presumably referencing Aristotelian physics, which held fire to be the lightest of the four elements.
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petrified, actually.
So you woke up and realized that rock was still the dominant genre.
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I still love disco, very much very much. Love me some Boney M! Ra-RA-RASPUTIN!
With the fist and the dagger, with the rifle and the lance, we will suffer no intrusion from the Infidels of France.I still love disco, very much very much. Love me some Boney M! Ra-RA-RASPUTIN!
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