Canto XXXII/ 1 From the original cast-list etching of heads (III/1) a thousand and one have been taken (a thousand is used by Dante to signify any large uncountable number, perhaps as we today, after inflation, use a million). For the original printing, a new plate was made of these excerpted masks and a crumpled Chinese take-away container was used to simulate in the etching's soft ground the cracking of the ice in which the heads down here are buried. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.