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This is Dantes View looking along that huge Death Valley, Black Mountains, Furnace Creek, Panamint Mountains area. It’s about a 30 mile view. In a bunch of directions. On a clear day though allegedly you can see Mount Whitney. Thus you can see the highest and lowest point in the US at the same time! Dante Alighieri of course is the Italian poet, born 1265 and died 1321, the guy who wrote the Divine Comedy that gave everyone the portrait of a humanist rebel Lucifer that’s become so fashionable. Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven etc. There was a very famous 1800’s edition illustrated by Gustave Dore which have some of the best examples of what I’d call ‘comic book inks’ ever produced. duckduckgo.com/?q=divine+comed… Incredible use of gradient in a simple line and the imaginative fantasy of the compositions is really a sight to behold.

Suddenly I feel the need to caveat the link to Chateau Grief with the phrase:
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate.

Description

This is Dantes View looking along that huge Death Valley, Black Mountains, Furnace Creek, Panamint Mountains area. It’s about a 30 mile view. In a bunch of directions. On a clear day though allegedly you can see Mount Whitney. Thus you can see the highest and lowest point in the US at the same time! Dante Alighieri of course is the Italian poet, born 1265 and died 1321, the guy who wrote the Divine Comedy that gave everyone the portrait of a humanist rebel Lucifer that’s become so fashionable. Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven etc. There was a very famous 1800’s edition illustrated by Gustave Dore which have some of the best examples of what I’d call ‘comic book inks’ ever produced. duckduckgo.com/?q=divine+comed… Incredible use of gradient in a simple line and the imaginative fantasy of the compositions is really a sight to behold.

Suddenly I feel the need to caveat the link to Chateau Grief with the phrase:
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate.