Abandon All Hope
by
MasterMind, specialist in idolatry

"For I am blind, I am deaf, I am an imbecile, and in excrement, in filth hath my lifetime been... Perhaps thou mistaketh me for another; perhaps thou seekest another in my stead"
---Praise for Tezcatlipoca

01---Velut umbra fugit*
02---"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"**
03---“The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night”***
04---"It’s natural, it’s colorful, it’s hedonistic, there’s an indulgence aspect to it, but it keeps the authenticity of chocolate"****
05---une voix magnifique et il sert la beauté, : on tutoie les anges, c'est enivrant tellement c'est sublime
06---zeitloser Modernität
07---de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum+
08---dead men do not bite++
09---“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est…”
10---"I used to ride my bicycle in the night
With a dandy acetylene lantern that cost $3.00"+++
11---Je vis dessus le contour vaporeux d´une forme humaine++++
12---"In quella parte sotto tramontana
sono li monti de la calamita"$
13---waterloze fonteinen, van een draaiwind gedreven$$
14---In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind$$$

Notes:
* after Hiob 14:2
** Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto III[1], l. 9. Most frequently translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
*** Romeo & Juliet, A2 Sc2. Uses the poem ...Lyonness by Thomas Hardy
**** Antoine de Saint-Affrique, CEO Barry Callebaut
+ The Extremes of Good and Evil, after Cicero
++ Erasmus, Adagia
+++ H.P. Lovecraft, Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance, www.hplovecraft.com
++++ after Odilon Redon
$ Guido Guinizelli
$$ 2Peter 2:17
$$$ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Erlkönig

Voices, noises, poems:
Thomas Hardy; Derrel Sims; City Council Opens with Prayer to Satan; Prayers that rout demons by John Eckhardt; Satan bow in the name of Jesus - Viewers Prayer With T.B. Joshua; Bing; Beblia