[ He's pleased to hear it, since no one ever appreciates the delightful irony of this! How fun! aka I guess they're starting a book club, help, ]
Well! My personal favorite will always be Faust by Goethe since it is a delightful and personal tale of a human being tempted... The godliness of it is a bit much, but as I said, you can only expect so much from humanity.
Besides that, there is Inferno by Dante Alighieri, which imagines Hell oh so delightfully. It is also wonderfully petty! A poet just made a book of everyone he hated and described their various ironic tortures and torments, and it is a renowned work of literature for it! It is followed by two other poems, but skip them, for again, the godliness ruins all the fun. But I will say that this work is by far the most influential in Hell. The torments were lovely, so nearly all have been taken up.
And finally, I do also enjoy Paradise Lost by John Milton, though it is the least accurate for our kind. It tells a story of how Lucifer came to have his position in Hell by being an angel that rebelled against God. That part is true, but little else. It is a romantic poem, though. It reflects the sorts of things I enjoy about humanity, but I would not spoil that. I think it would be more interesting to hear your opinion.
All of which you are welcome to borrow from my personal library if you cannot find them, by the way. I can create them with no more than a wave of the hand.
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Well! My personal favorite will always be Faust by Goethe since it is a delightful and personal tale of a human being tempted... The godliness of it is a bit much, but as I said, you can only expect so much from humanity.
Besides that, there is Inferno by Dante Alighieri, which imagines Hell oh so delightfully. It is also wonderfully petty! A poet just made a book of everyone he hated and described their various ironic tortures and torments, and it is a renowned work of literature for it! It is followed by two other poems, but skip them, for again, the godliness ruins all the fun. But I will say that this work is by far the most influential in Hell. The torments were lovely, so nearly all have been taken up.
And finally, I do also enjoy Paradise Lost by John Milton, though it is the least accurate for our kind. It tells a story of how Lucifer came to have his position in Hell by being an angel that rebelled against God. That part is true, but little else. It is a romantic poem, though. It reflects the sorts of things I enjoy about humanity, but I would not spoil that. I think it would be more interesting to hear your opinion.
All of which you are welcome to borrow from my personal library if you cannot find them, by the way. I can create them with no more than a wave of the hand.