the worthless word for the day is: malebolge
[It., from the eighth circle of Dante's Inferno,
Malebolge < L. malus, evil + bolgia, valley]
/mal eh BOLGE/ (literary)
a pool of filth; a hellish place or condition
"There is a place within the depths of hell
Called Malebolge." - Dante's Inferno
"An infernal malebolge... A pure ordeal,
undisguised by any trappings of luxury."
- 'Tiresias', Notes from Overground* (1984)
*according to bookcrossing.com, a copy of this
book, #3,266,873 on the Amazon sales list, was
released into the wild at Paddington Railway
Station in London, about one year ago.
#board-2412
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle