The Modern Divine Comedy Book 2: Inferno 2 Ascending

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: 9781663245090
• Langue: English

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THE MODERN DIVINE COMEDY BOOK 2: INFERNO 2 ASCENDING




ANDREW J. FARRARA








THE MODERN DIVINE COMEDY BOOK 2: INFERNO 2 ASCENDING


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ISBN: 978-1-6632-4511-3 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4509-0 (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





TRIAL OF THE AGES OF DOUBLE MILLENNIUMS TRUTH & JUSTICE
CONTENTS
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.
PLACE:
PARADISO, PURGATORIO, & INFERNO & LIMBOLAND
& in the Celestial Supreme Court
MENTAL SUB-PLACE:
HEAVENLY SUBCONSCIOUS
CLIMATE:
PERFECT SUB TROPICAL COOLING HAWAIIAN TRADE WINDS
but GETTING HOTTER & HOTTER all the time
THEMES:
MORTALITY & IMMORTALITY
in all its contradictions & imperfections
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
(Cast of Characters)
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 DEVIL
He is still up to his devious & diabolical tricks plotting
the Takeover of the Limboland & eventually the Celestial Kingdom
MEPHISTOPHELES, LUCIFER & SATAN
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 HIMSELF
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 INTERRUPTUS
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 FRUSTRATED
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
HOLIEST WARRIOR
GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO
HUNCHBACK HOLY MAN
aka
OLD HOLY MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN
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 BUCHANAN
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 JOSEPHUS
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 & MOSES
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 INTERRUPTUS 10
WINNER TAKE ALL IN NEW CELESTIAL ELECTORAL
SYSTEM??? MONEY, SEX & BOOZE
SCENE 10
KOREAN LIMBOLAND ARENA:
TERROR & REVENGE and GLORY & TRAGEDY OF
COMMUNIST NORTH VS CAPITALIST SOUTH YET
OVERTURE
GEORGE ORWELL & LEON TROTSKY & EUGENE DEBS
SHOW UP TO INVESTIGATE
MODERN TOTALITARIAN NORTH KOREAN SOCIETY
FOREWORD
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
PRELUDE
NORTH KOREAN INDOCTRINATION SYSTEM



PREPOSTEROUS PRIMORDIAL
PREFACE
CHAPTERS
10-1 KOREAN TOUR GUIDE KIM-LEE SHOWS UP
10-2 KOREAN ANGELS GRACE GA-YOON & SUNG-SOOK ARRIVE SEEING KOREAN OPERA DIVA & PSYCHIATRIST WHO HANDLES WAR TRAUMA
10-3 CULINARY CHARADE NORTH KOREAN SOCIALIST ICE CREAM STAND SELLING ONLY ONE KIND
10-4 NEW KOREAN OPERATIC CHORUS FORMED
10-5 SURPRISE SURPRISE!! CELESTIAL INVESTIGATION SURPRISE VISIT

FRIGHTENING INTERLUDE
NORTH KOREANS TRYING TO SABOTAGE SOUTH USING OPERA
CHAPTERS
10-6 NORTH KOREANS USING ROLLER DERBY TEAM AS ESPIONAGE FRONT
10-7 SOUTH KOREAN OPERA TROUP ARRIVE
10-8 SOUTH KOREAN HISTORIAN & NORTH KOREAN ESCAPED PRISONER ARRIVE TO DISCUSS LIMBOLAND SITUATION
10-9 NORTH KOREAN SPIES INFILTRATE THE SOUTH
10-10 NORTH KOREAN CADRES DIRECTED TO IMPLEMENT SOVIET LENINIST NEP PROGRAMME
10-11 MAKING KOREAN SUNG-SUNG KIM-KIM ITS DEAR LEADER
10-12 NORTH KOREA FLEXING THEIR POLITICAL MUSCLES



INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 11
THERE IS A BEAUTY IN EVILNESS!
SCENE 11
VIETNAMESE LIMBOLAND ARENA
OVERTURE
BASIC TRAINING FOR
COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE
OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES
CHAPTERS
11-1 CHAIRMAN HO CHI MINH & GENERAL GIAP CONSPIRING TO TAKE OVER THE LIMBOLAND ARENA
11-2 WESTERN COMBAT WAR CORRESPONDENTS HUDDLE BEFORE FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE INTERVIEW
11-3 CHAIRMAN HO GIVING POWERFUL SPEECH PREPARING TO OVERTHROW THE LIMBOLAND ARENA
11-4 INTERNATIONAL TRADERS PETITIONING CHAIRMAN HO FOR FUTURE BUSINESS
11-5 THREE MORE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARRIVE TO QUESTION CHAIRMAN HO & GENERAL GIAP
11-6 FOREIGN WAR CORRESPONDENTS FINALLY GET TO QUESTION CHAIRMAN HO-HO-HO
11-7 MORE DIPLOMATIC DECEPTION ON BOTH SIDES BEING PLAYED
11-8 TOUR PROPOSED FOR VIETNAM LIMBOLAND ENTERTAINMENT ARENA COMPLEX



INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 12
COMMUNISM IS DEAD MEAT & WAR DEAD
SCENE 12
AMERIKAN EXPERIMENTAL
LIMBOLAND ARENA
PAST PRESENT & FUTURE
PROMISES MADE & PROMISES BROKEN
OVERTURE
PREFACE
CHAPTERS
12-1 NORTH VIETNAMESE MARXIST ANGEL KIM CUC & SOUTH VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ANGEL CHAU INTRODUCED
12-2 ROBERT MCNAMARA GHOST MUMBLING & WALKING AROUND IN FUTURISTIC DAZE MEETS DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN PARADE
12-3 FRENCH & AMERIKAN TOP SPIES DISCUSS VIETNAM PRIVATELY AT CAFÉ
12-4 ROBERT MCNAMARA GHOST TALKING TO SELF WITH HIS CONSCIENCE LISTENING IN
12-5 AMERIKAN HAWK CHORUS & AMERIKAN DOVE CHORUS CONSCIENCES OFFER OTHER COMMENTS
INTERVENTIONS PRESIDENTIAL
12-6 SEVEN PRESIDENTS MAKING PRIVATE COMMENTS ABOUT THEMSELVES & VIETNAM AMONG OTHER SUBJECTS WHILE FDR & TRUMAN GETTING PRESIDENTS TOGETHER FOR POWWOW
12-7 AMERIKAN CAMPAIGN MANAGER & BOSTON POLITIKAL BOSS SHOW UP
12-8 NEW AMERIKAN POLLSTER & NEW AMERIKAN OPERATIVE ARRIVE
12-9 MISSOURIAN CORRUPT BOSS TOM PENDERGAST ARRIVES
12-10 BACK TO THE MAIN SCENE SEVEN MODERN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS FROM FDR TO FORD ON PERSPECTIVE & REVISIONISM
12-11 PRESIDENTS CROSS-EXAMINE FDR
12-12 PRESIDENTS CROSS-EXAMINE TRUMAN
12-13 PRESIDENTS CROSS-EXAMINE EISENHOWER