The following two parts, " Purgatorio" and " Paradiso, " continue Dante's journey, as he scales the Mount of Purgatory and ascends the nine celestial spheres of Heaven.
In Christian traditions, two or sometimes three realms of the afterlife — Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory — await all souls as compensation for their earthly deeds.
Britain made a spectacular entry into this financial purgatory in late September by unveiling plans for huge, unfunded tax cuts, sending the value of sterling crashing.
What followed was a string of lost days spent in the purgatory of blood draws, pulse checks, untouched meal trays, and squads of doctors making rounds.
When someone else offered up the theory that we had all died and entered purgatory, where we were destined to debate Hillary for all eternity, no one laughed.