The Modern Divine Comedy Book 1: Inferno 1 Descending

Andrew J. Farrara

Description

A 20th century Journalist has a fantastic dream that he is thrown back into 1896 as a visitor like Dante’s Hero in the after-life.
This book explores and details the experiences and trials of both the Journalist Romano known here as the First Man Adam and his celestial ancient Persian guide Zarathustra while they travel to the Inferno and Limboland Arenas of the Pre-Historic Paleo Heroes; the Ancient Greek Gods & Goddesses; the Ancient Roman Gods & Goddesses; the Sumerian & Babylonian & Egyptian Gods; the Norse Viking Gods; the Indian Hindoo Vedic Gods; the Chinese Gods & Emperors; the Koreans; the Vietnamese; the Amerikan Experimental; the Cambodian & Laotian Encampments; the Burmese; the Hodgepodge of Nations On The Fringe Desiring Anonymity; the Japanese; the Irish Republican Army & Sinn Fein; the Native Americans; the Incas & Aztecs & Mayas; and Cuba & Nicaragua.

Sujets

• God
• Divine Comedy
• Politics
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Judaism
• Devil
• Christianity
• Islam
• The Divine Comedy
• Fiction
• Fantasy

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 13 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663245649
• Langue: English

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THE MOD ERN DIV INE COM EDY BO OK 1: INFERNO 1 Descending
 
 
 
ANDREW J. FARRARA
 
 

THE MODERN DIVINE COMEDY BOOK 1: INFERNO 1 DESCENDING
 
 
Copyright © 2022 Andrew J. Farrara.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-4510-6 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4564-9 (e)
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 10/07/2022
THE MODERN DIVINE COMEDY 8-PART SERIES
BOOK 1 INFERNO 1 DESCENDING
BOOK 2 INFERNO 2 ASCENDING
BOOK 3 LIMBOLAND 1 ENTRANCE
BOOK 4 LIMBOLAND 2 DEPARTURE
BOOK 5 PURGATORIO 1 ENTRY
BOOK 6 PURGATORIO 2 DEPARTURE
BOOK 7 PARADISO 1 ENTRY
BOOK 8 PARADISO 2 DEPARTURE
CONTENTS
PRE-SCENE
BEHIND THE STAGE CURT AINS
OVERTURE PHILOSOPHICAL
MANAGING EDITOR & FOREIGN WAR CORRESPONDENT
MISE-EN-S CENE:
HOLY ANGELS VEZY & SARA AS NARRATORS
DRAMATIS PERS ONAE
1 SCE NE 1
NEW YORK HERALD MANAGING EDITOR’S OFFICE
OVERTURE PHILOSOPHICAL
MANAGING EDITOR & FOREIGN WAR CORRESPONDENT
CHAPTER
1-1GREATEST STORY EVER WRITTEN
CHAPTER
1-2PRELUDE THEOLOGICA: ABOVE THE CLOUDS IN THE KINGDOM
CHAPTER
1-3HOLY SECRETS OF THE AGES: NARRATORS/ STORYTELLERS INTRODUCED
TRIAL OF THE AGES OF DOUBLE MILLENNIUMS TRUTH & JUSTICE
CONT ENTS
TIME :
GREAT HEROIC PAST, SOME PRESENT & STILL A BIT OF FUTURE.
Our Hero thinks it’s Christmas Day December 25, 1895
but it is really the early 21 st Century.
STAGE SUB- TIME:
HOLY LANDS FROZEN in 1 st CENTURY A.D.
P LACE:
PARADISO, PURGATORIO, & INFERNO & LIMBOLAND
& in the Celestial Supreme Court
MENTAL SUB-P LACE:
HEAVENLY SUBCONSCIOUS
CLI MATE:
PERFECT SUB TROPICAL COOLING HAWAIIAN TRADE WINDS
but GETTING HOTTER & HOTTER all the time
TH EMES:
MORTALITY & IMMORTALITY
in all its contradictions & imperfections
DRAMATIS PERS ONAE
(Cast of Charac ters)
JOURNALIST
The First Man ADAM & Himself
being Investigative Foreign Correspondent
as Andrew Romano on a Divine Odyssey
ZARATHUSTRA
Celestial Tour Guide, Chariot Driver & Divine friend for Journalist,
Prophet-Philosopher & founder of Zoroastrianism
WISE PROPHETS
Unnamed Daily Leaders in the Kingdom
ARCHANGELS
Administrators of the Celestial Kingdom
HOLY ANGELS VEZY & SARA
Special Narrators
& An Occasional
MYSTERIOUS SUBSTITUTE NARRATOR
DIVINE CHORUS
Conservative & Reactionary souls/consciences of Mankind/ Many Humanities
PEANUT GALLERY
Liberal & Radical souls/consciences of Mankind/Many Humanities
OTHER HOLY ANGELS
Monitors of Mortals on Earth, pure, chaste, innocent but some could be
mischievous with underestimated intelligence
THE TREACHEROUS D EVIL
He is still up to his devious & diabolical tricks plotting
the Takeover of the Limboland & eventually the Celestial Kingdom
MEPHISTOPHELES, LUCIFER & S ATAN
Three Crown Princes of Evilness & Evil Clones of the Devil
hidden somewhere, everywhere & anywhere & masked
as expected trying to conquer the Kingdom again & again.
Oops, we wanted to forget
THE ALMIGHTY GOD HIM SELF
The Most Powerful, the Big Guy, Omnipotent, Omnipresent,
Omnibenevolent & Omniscient. He wants you to think that
He’s in the front & back of everything.
Called the Big Dog by the Devil
INFERNAL WICKED INTERRU PTUS
Occasional private episode Scene exposing
the Devil’s & his Three Crown Princes’
Furtive attempt to Conspire & Control
the Limboland Arenas & Celestial Kingdom
GOD’S THREE CAPABLE BUT FRUSTR ATED
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIST ANTS
HOLIEST WAR RIOR
GRAND PONTIFEX MAX IMUS
AIDE-DE-CAMP ANT ONIO
HUNCHBACK HOLY MAN
aka
OLD HOLY MAN OF THE MOUN TAIN
Mysterious seeker of the Divine Truths &
Wisest of all Wise philosophers &
Real Subconscious of Mankind
OTHER CHARACTERS INCLUDE:
DENIZENS OF PURGATORIO, LIMBOLAND & INFERNO
Concerned about mortality & immortality
some petitioning for entrance to Paradiso
PROFANITY WORDS
Bleeped
VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST & SWISS PSYCHOANALYST
Roaming & Analyzing everyone & everything except themselves
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS
Roaming & criticizing everyone & everything
EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Wandering students of burgeoning earthly & divine wisdom
YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR
Their Itinerant Teacher
BARRISTER DARRYL BUCH ANAN
A brilliant visiting Mortal American lawyer defending clients
Rockyfello & Court Jester
before God’s Celestial Supreme Court of the Kingdom
& defending Flavius Josephus in the
CELESTIAL TRIAL OF JOSEPHUS
FLAVIUS JOSE PHUS
Jewish General and ancient Roman writer on Trial
as traitor, turncoat, collaborationist & propagandist
for Emperors Vespasian and Titus
in discovering the real Spiritual Truths
ABRAHAM, NOAH & M OSES
Celestial Supreme Court Judges of the Kingdom
OTHER ACTORS
HEAVENLY CABINET…………………………………………….. of Archangels
DIVINE PARLIAMENT……………………….of Angels and Saints and Martyrs
ROCKYFELLO………….American industrialist, Oil Titan, richest mortal in world, age 56 in 1895
COURT JESTER……….Rockyfello’s untrustworthy & treacherous aide-de-camp
SECRET AGENTS OF THE INFERNO……agents of the Devil in many manifestations
MANY PAGAN, BIBLICAL, & HISTORICAL CHARACTERS being historical & mythological….TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION
GRAND BUREAUCRAT……………………………..Inferno’s Top Administrator
COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS…lurking in the jungles of the mind and soul of man
ECHO OF THE BIG BANG………………………………epistemological concept
QUIETI…Quest for INTRA-TERRESTRIAL and EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Intelligence
 
INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPT US 1
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE CONNIVING UNHOLY DEVIL
 
BAC K TO
SCENE 1
EDITOR & JOURNALIST & BLACK CAT
 
NEW YORK HERALD MANAGING EDITOR’S OFFICE
CHAPTERS
1-4FIRST MAN IN COUNTRY
1-5SAYINGS ON THE OFFICE WALL
1-6TAKING THE PIPE INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS
1-7JONAH & THE WHALE
1-8BIBLICAL INVESTIGATIONS
1-9DID JESUS EXIST? GREATEST STORY EVER WRITTEN
1-10DARK SIDE OF HUMANITY
1-11APOCALYPSE NOW
1-12BEYOND MAN & TIME
1-13TO HELL IN A FAST CHARIOT: HISTORY BEFORE HIS EYES
1-14THE HISTORY OF LESSONS NOT THE LESSONS OF HISTORY
 
INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPT US 2
DEVIL HAS CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: WELL, SORT OF! BUT WHY?
2 SCE NE 2
CONCEALED NEAR & A BOVE THE GATES OF H ADES IN THE INF ERNO
CHAPTERS
2-1MEET ME IN HELL & BEYOND THE GRAVE
2-2THE OASIS OUTSIDE THE GATES OF HADES
2-3WHAT & WHO IS THE DEVIL? THE MEPHISTOPHELES, LUCIFER & SATAN TEAM
2-4AUGUSTE RODIN & CAMILLE CLAUDEL DEFIANTLY CONSTRUCTING THEIR GATES OF HELL HERE
2-5LOST WORLD OF THE GODS IN DE-MILITARIZED LIMBOLAND ZONE ALL GODS MEET & WEEP TO CONQUER THEIR LOST WORLDS
2-6THE DEVIL’S DIABOLICAL CURSE
2-7SCIENTISTS THEORETICAL GUESSING THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL
2-8EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN CHOSEN TO WRITE A SENIOR THESIS ABOUT THE LIMBOLAND
2-9HOMER, FAULKNER, KAZANTZAKIS & JOYCE WALK BY THEN OTHERS
 
INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPT US 3
DEVIL WANTS TO DESTROY THE WORLD & START OVER AGAIN
 
MEDICAL UPDAT ES 3
QUICK DISCUSSION ON AIDS EPIDEMIC BY MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
 
3 SCE NE 3
PRE-HISTORIC PALEO HE ROES LIMBOLAND A RENA
 
OVERTURE
NEOLITHIC, MESOLITHIC, PALEOLITHIC, NEANDERTHAL & CRO-MAGNON SOULS TRYING TO BE MODERN?
CHAPTERS
3-1PRE-HISTORIC PRIMEVAL OLDEST SOULS OSTRACIZED TO OWN LIMBLOLAND ARENAS
3-2TWO FRENCH ARCHEOLOGISTS ARRIVE TO WRITE THEIR STORIES
3-3KIWI & MAORI HUCKSTERING THEIR WARES
3-4TRAVEL AGENTS SELLING TRIPS TO LIMBOLAND & INFERNO
3-5ZARATHUSTRA & ADAM SEEN BY PRE-HISTORIC SOULS
3-6TOP FEMALE PALEO SPY RETURNS WITH INTELLIGENCE REPORT WHAT ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX???
3-7YOUNGER ELDER & PATRIARCH SOULS ARRIVE
3-8MODERN SCIENTISTS CULTURE MEETS PRELITERATE CULTURE CONFLICT
3-9BIZARRE DISCUSSION ON EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS BY PRE-HISTORIC SOULS
 
INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPT US 4
DEVIL RANTS HATRED OF GREEKS
4 SCE NE 4
 
ANCIENT G REEK GODS & GODDE SSES LIMBOLAND A RENA
 
PROLOGOS
ZEUS IS ALONE FEELING SORRY FOR HIMSELF
 
OVERTURE
CHAPTERS
4-1TWO GREEK-AMERICAN WOMEN MARY & DENISE BRAVE THE INFERNO TO VISIT ITS BRAVE OLDE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
4-2ZEUS HAS GODDESS ERIS SPYING ON OTHERS
4-3TAVERNA ZEUS OF THE GREEK GODS
4-4GREEK OLYMPIAN GODS & GODDESSES MEETING
4-5TWO GREEK ANGELIC MONITORS OF ATHENA & DIONYSIA p 263
4-6GREEK OLYMPIAN GODS STILL PONDERING THEIR FATE
4-7RESURRECT OLYMPICS GAMES IS THE SOLUTION
4-8MODERN GREEK LITERARY RADICALS NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS & A