Virgil's motivational language in the climb centers on fame, renown, and overcoming bodily heaviness through spirit.
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Climb
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Cato rebukes the souls for lingering over song and affection because they still have to climb and shed what keeps them from seeing God.
The canto then reintroduces the practical climb through a flock of souls whose attention is caught by Dante's living shadow.
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"Malabolge runs right past me, into the mouth of its last well, the placement of each valley means it must have one bank high..."
"We all were motionless. And fixed upon the notes when all at once the grave old man cried out, what have we here? You..."
"If line one, two, four, even as stubs assembled where they feed quietly, gathering their grain or weeds forgetful of their customary strut. Well,..."
"reading while he his eyes upon the ground consulted his mind considering what road to take and i looked up around the wall of..."
"crowded there refused to budge even as men when apprehensive halt oh chosen souls you have ended well virgil began by virtue of that..."
"to this in as we climb up mount purgatory so what is this dream about uh yes"
"...let our steps accept his invitation, and let us try to climb before dark falls. Then, until day returns, we'll have to halt. So..."
"...he who's alive and surely i don't lie to you would climb above as soon as he has seen the sun shed light on..."
"...and so remained until, through the cleft rock that lets one climb above, I reached the point at which the circle starts. When I..."
"...Pope he was extremely ambitious, he did whatever he could to climb the ladder of power, and now, after he repented, he is forced..."
"...shifts places in our world is absent here. Dry vapor cannot climb up any higher than to the top of the three steps of..."
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