Hellsinky

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  • Helsinki: Capital of Finland, thus capital of Finns
  • Hell sinky: the "pit of Hell"
  • Hell stinky: cf. Portrait III: "The horror of this strait and dark prison is increased by its awful stench. All the filth of the world, all the offal and scum of the world, we are told, shall run there as to a vast reeking sewer when the terrible conflagration of the last day has purged the world. The brimstone, too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench; and the bodies of the damned themselves exhale such a pestilential odour that, as saint Bonaventure says, one of them alone would suffice to infect the whole world."