Could Dante have walked beside me across that dreadful place, which had been transformed by human agency from a peaceful countryside to a garbage heap, a cesspool, and a charnel-house combined, he would never have written his 'Inferno, ' because the hell of his imagination would have seemed colourless and tame.

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"This was certainly not a tour from hell, by any stretch of the imagination, " he added.

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Alan Moore is one of my favorite comic book writers, and his wild, arcane imagination has given us some wonderful series, such as From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen, which were adapted to the big screen.

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