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Entry: Halloween: The Seven Deadly Courses Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/halloween_the_seven_deadly_courses#8122 Post contents: More thoughts on costumes. In Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" there's a scene where the Seven Deadly Sins are personified for Faust's amusement. Hm. Costumes for the Seven Deadly Sins of Taki's Top Drawer? Pride: Alan Dershowitz. Purgatorial condition: down on all fours, held on a leash by Paul Gottfried. Envy: Any hack journalist, especially the parvenu Christopher Hitchens. Purgatorial condition: Everyone ignores him. Gluttony: David Frum. Purgatorial condition: Sweated down to slenderness and physical fitness by his personal trainer, Taki. Anger: Me and Joe Populist. Purgatorial condition: everyone agrees with everything we say. Lust: Taki. Purgatorial condition: Roommate in Purgatory will be Paris Hilton. That'll cool him down forever. Greed: Ayn Rand. Purgatorial condition: reincarnated as an impoverished White American male born to poor parents in some defunct former-coal-mining town in West Virginia, and told throughout life that he lives in the land of opportunity and free markets and that he is personally responsible for his poverty. Sloth: Anyone who accuses other commenters of being "PC" without a damned good reason. Purgatorial condition: unable to read any comments except for those of Sid Cundiff. (And the converse will be purgatory for Sid.) I'm also wondering whether, in the spirit of ecumencialism, John Zmirak would come to my Guy Fawkes Night party? ;-) We can adapt it to American conditions and burn effigies of AIPAC lobbyists. Sent at: 2008 09 07