The canto descent is staged through the Minotaur and a shattered path whose collapse Virgil links to the cosmic shock around Christ's harrowing of hell.
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Canto 12
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Counter 12, the place that we had reached for our descent along the bank was Alpine. What reclined upon that bank would too repel..."
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"Counter 12, the place that we had reached for our descent along the bank was Alpine. What reclined upon that bank would too repel..."
"Line 22. Just as the bull that breaks loose from its halter the moment it receives the fatal stroke, and cannot run but plunges..."
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