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Nice. Little children need to know how to play properly.
THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE CITY OF WOE,
THROUGH ME THE WAY TO EVERLASTING PAIN,
THROUGH ME THE WAY AMONG THE LOST.
JUSTICE MOVED MY MAKER ON HIGH.
DIVINE POWER MADE ME,
WISDOM SUPREME, AND PRIMAL LOVE.
BEFORE ME NOTHING WAS BUT THINGS ETERNAL,
AND ETERNAL I ENDURE.
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER HERE.
These words, dark in hue, I saw inscribed
over an archway. And then I said:
'Master, for me their meaning is hard.'
And he, as one who understood:
'Here you must banish all distrust,
here must all cowardice be slain.
'We have come to where I said
you would see the miserable sinners
who have lost the good of the intellect.'
And after he had put his hand on mine
with a reassuring look that gave me comfort,
he led me toward things unknown to man.
Learn it well.
THROUGH ME THE WAY TO EVERLASTING PAIN,
THROUGH ME THE WAY AMONG THE LOST.
JUSTICE MOVED MY MAKER ON HIGH.
DIVINE POWER MADE ME,
WISDOM SUPREME, AND PRIMAL LOVE.
BEFORE ME NOTHING WAS BUT THINGS ETERNAL,
AND ETERNAL I ENDURE.
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER HERE.
These words, dark in hue, I saw inscribed
over an archway. And then I said:
'Master, for me their meaning is hard.'
And he, as one who understood:
'Here you must banish all distrust,
here must all cowardice be slain.
'We have come to where I said
you would see the miserable sinners
who have lost the good of the intellect.'
And after he had put his hand on mine
with a reassuring look that gave me comfort,
he led me toward things unknown to man.
Learn it well.