The Guardian reports on the cause of the blaze, saying that "Police said they believed the inferno began accidentally and may be linked to building work at the cathedral".
The South Plainfield fire chief, Tom Scalera, also said investigators had determined that the early-morning inferno began in the kitchen and that all five victims died inside a single bedroom directly above it, in a 19th-century home made of brick and wood.
Inferno begins with the hero suffering from "head trauma", and Brown's head – a boggy hideout for the craziest superstitions of the so-called Dark Ages – seems to be similarly traumatised.
At the outset, as the action of "Inferno" begins, Beatrice's weeping impels Virgil on his mission to assist Dante, as Dante's desperation impels him to follow his guide.
"This morning found me up at 6 to feed the dogs, then back in bed, where I read a little more of Dante's 'Inferno,' " begins one blog post by Kevin Gordon, who has a master's in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers Workshopp and a musical sensibility that's part Muddy Waters and part Carl Perkins.
In the wake of the counterculture's failure to achieve utopia or even a workable modus vivendi, Bowie concocted a series of inspired, nervily grandiose pastiches that insisted on utopia by depicting its alternative as inferno, beginning with the emblematic rock-star martyr fantasy The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972).
The scavenger hunt that occupies the rest of "Inferno" begins when an armed assassin dressed as an Italian carabiniere comes sprinting down the hospital corridor; Langdon and Brooks flee, and subsequently sneak their way through the Boboli Gardens and the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence Stt. Mark's Basilica, in Venice; and the Hagia Sophia and the Basilica Cistern, in Istanbul.
Canto I of Dante's Inferno begins, "Midway upon the journey of our life/I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost".
Readings proceed in concentric circles, with the Inferno beginning on the outskirts of the city, and Paradiso ending on the steps of the Duomo.
"Dad," Ms. Tibus yelled, "That's Uncle Dennis!" Her uncle, a volunteer in the Edgewater Fire Department, was being carried out of the inferno that began when an apartment complex being built across the street from the Tibuses's house went up in flames.
(Very geeky, I know). I created one painting for every Canto in "The Inferno". I began the project by doing very large, serious pieces.
