My own personal Hell

The New York Yankees, Militant Vegans
Circle I Limbo

Australian cricketers
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Manchester City fans
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

IBM Management
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Republicans, Scientologists
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Barbara Amiel, Conrad Black
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

George Bush
Circle VII Burning Sands

The Pope
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

David Irving
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Plagiarism

I just read Sir Thomas Cochrane's account of his cruise in the Mediterranean in HMS Speedy during the French revolutionary wars. Interesting enough in itself but what really gets me is that Patrick O'Brian lifts the story almost word for word in Master and Commander. There is a long tradition of using thinly disguised real life accounts in that type of genre novel but this exceeds all bounds of reasonable decency!