Inferno Page #3

The three gnashing mouths

are symbolic...

...of how effectively the plague

ate through the population.

Yet you can't remember

the word for coffee.

Explains my visions. Sort of.

- You hear that?

- Mm.

This could be a Faraday pointer.

So why this? Huh?

It's Botticelli.

It's his Map of Hell.

He painted it as an illustration

of Dante's Inferno.

I studied Dante when I was younger.

Probably in kindergarten.

I was a bit obsessed.

Dante defined

our modern conception of hell.

Our vision of it hasn't changed

since he defined it 700 years ago.

Botticelli drew it

but Dante created hell as we know it.

This is what I have been seeing.

Torment.

Sinners.

Branded with letters.

Liars covered with rashes.

Soothsayers with their heads

ripped backwards.

- Serpents.

- The punishment for thievery.

Suffer, sinners. Pay for your sins.

So you have no idea why you have this.

I think maybe

we call the consulate now.

Right.

Professor Langdon?

Hello, yes.

Speaking.

Thank heavens you're alive.

We've been looking for you.

You have?

Are you still in possession?

Mr. Langdon, do you have the tube?

Mes.

- Where are you located?

Professor, we can't help you

if we can't find you.

That's the consulate.

Now, how did they know?

Because they know.

What do we do?

Tell them you're over there.

- Hello?

- Professor, we were cut off.

Yes, sorry.

Where are you located?

I am at a hotel.

Pensione La Fiorentina.

Stay in your room.

We're sending someone now.

Well, I'll wait here. Room 39.

Okay.

We wait and see who they send.

Langdon accessed

his e-mail account...

...from an unmasked IP address

here in Florence.

- When?

- Seven minutes ago.

Via Dolorosa, number 12.

Apartment 3C.

Via Dolorosa. How long?

Twelve minutes.

Go! I want that pointer back!

And I want Langdon.

Whatever it takes.

Let's get him. Go, go, go. Now!

Look at this. This is odd.

This area here.

This is Dante's eighth level of hell.

It's called the Malebolge.

It means evil ditches.

There's 10 of them.

This letter here...

...is not in the original painting.

It's been added.

Here's another one.

- Where?

- An "E."

On seducers whipped by demons.

Here's a "C" on the cheek of a...

A grafter. A con man

trapped in a river of boiling tar.

- "V." "R."

- Ah. There.

- "T."

- There. "A."

What is that? I think that's text.

Is that in English?

"The truth...

...can be glimpsed only...

...through the eyes of...

...death.

Zobrist."

"Bertrand Zobrist...

...American billionaire."

That must be nice.

"Bioengineer

notorious for radical views."

Here he is.

It took the Earth's population

100,000 years to reach a billion people.

And then just a hundred more

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