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The perceptual environment that marks the terrace of wrath and enacts its spiritual condition.
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black smoke
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The Canto 16 transition places Dante in black smoke on the terrace of wrath, where blindness and dependence on guidance become central.
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"outside itself and met the things outside it that are real i then could recognize my not false desires my guide on seeing me..."
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"...were dimmed and the light of night were bright but gradually smoke as black as night began to overtake us and there was no..."
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"could have avoided it of pure air and sight okay so we uh were in the terrace of law but um they're"
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"...the name of the rap uh sort of rap is all black smoke okay all right that's one one canto 16."
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"...are crawling uh with Raph what happens is you're blinded by smoke and the idea is that your anger blinds you right and so..."
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"...so thickly nor covered them with such rough textured stuff as smoke that wrapped us there in purgatory my eyes could not endure remaining..."
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"...of anger then who are you whose body pierces through our smoke who speak of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of..."
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"...with you no farther. You see the rays that penetrate the smoke already whitening. I must take leave. The angel has arrived before he..."
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"...other said yes, they do sing. Just so, about the incense smoke shown there, my nose and eyes contended too with yes and no...."
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"...without renown leaves such a vestige of himself on earth as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water. Therefore, get up, defeat your..."
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"...his wound, the other through his mouth, where smoking violently their smoke met. Let Lucan now be silent, where he sings of sad Sabilus..."
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"...put out two hind pods from his member. And while the smoke veils each with a new color and now breeds hair upon the..."
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