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.
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.
By the end of the 12th century, they had become holy days of obligation across Europe and involved such traditions as ringing church bells for the souls in purgatory.
Then, as she recalled that dark portal, with its dusty stairway mounting between close walls to disappear in the upper shadows, her mind drew back as from a doorway to Purgatory.
Barack and the girls and I were back in Chicago, at home on Greenwood Avenue, caught in the purgatory of waiting for an entire nation to accept or reject us.
All other souls, including sinners who put their faith in God, travel to a realm of temporary punishment called Purgatory, where they are purged of their sins and eventually welcomed into Heaven.
Last midsummer I received a circular from a typewriting person, soliciting my custom; some one who had somehow got hold of my name, and fancied me to be still in purgatory.
One peddler of these " get-out-of-purgatory" certificates, Johann Tetzel, used to frighten congregations into paying up " by conjuring visions of their dead parents wailing for mercy" while being tortured by demons.