SUNSET BEACH - Literature Alive! in Second Life, a non-profit education group, is looking for a home for a full sim build that recreates Dante's Inferno and Gloria Naylor's novel, Linden Hills. It is currently hosted by the New Media Consortium at NMC 5 ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC%20Campus%205/228/15/55)

Desideria Stockton, the owner and creator of Literature Alive! and The Inferno said, "Larry Pixel and NMC have been really gracious by allowing us to build the Inferno at NMC, but, we always understood that it would only be temporary. I am sure they would host us forever if they could, but that is just not possible at this time." 

Visitors to the build will exlpore Dante's classic text and the way in which it relates to the seemingly very different contemporary novel by Naylor. While exlporing the build, residents, as well as students in Stockton's RL class, can see the way in which the past and present are much the same.

There are interactive displays spread throughout each layer and all are welcome to explore the area before it closes on Sunday

Eloise Pasteur, the designer of the Inferno and well respected educational builder/scripter, says that build requires a full sim only  "because of the need for 9 rings of Hell in the Inferno, and 9 ledges on Linden Hills. This class space requires essentially a whole sim by area. However, it is a low prim and script load build - currently less than 750 prims. If you have a sim where you can donate the space and about 1000 prims and work in a sky box over the remainder of the sim, the Inferno would fit nicely under your main build. Or, of course, a spare void sim could be the host to this display."

In RL, Desideria Stockton is a professor at a small community college in the US (PA). Her college supports her work "in theory" but provides her no funding. She explains that "this conservative area has not yet adopted the use of virtual worlds even though institutions like Harvard are using it" and that the "funding structure [of her college] does not afford for this type of work - yet."