Master Adam identifies himself as the counterfeiter of florins with alloyed dross and links his present thirst to the place and desire of his past crime.
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Counterfeit
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"He can't. She came to sin with him by falsely taking another shape upon herself. Just as the other phantom who goes there had..."
"Look now and pay attention to this the misery of Master Adam alive. I had enough of all I wanted. Alas, I now long..."
"If what the angry shades report is true, what use is that to me whose limbs are tied? Were I so light that in..."
"...see that I'm the shade of that Capoccio whose alchemy could counterfeit fine metals, and you, if I correctly take your measure, recall how..."
"...they are changing people's perception of reality, right? One, by creating counterfeit coins and taking advantage of, uh, people's reliance on money. And the..."
"...a sum total of imagination in the universe and when you counterfeit the imagination and disrupt the connection between humanity and the divine then..."
"...the coin, right? If you're at university and you started to counterfeit money, yeah, they might put you in prison, but you plagiarized you..."
"...their pigs and others too more piggish still who pay with counterfeit illegal tender but since we have digressed enough turn back your eyes..."
"...my lectures to that channel. There are lots of channels that counterfeit me, that take my material and turn it into clips. I'm not..."
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