The gluttons are described as so emaciated that personhood survives more in voice and memory than in facial appearance.
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Emaciation
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Dante’s explicit question in canto 25 is how a soul can become emaciated without a body that needs nourishment.
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"Devout and silent looked at us in wonder. Each shade had dark and hollow eyes. Their faces were pale and so emaciated that their..."
"When there, a shade, his eyes deep in his head, turned toward me, staring steadily, and then he cried aloud, what grace has granted..."
"Kanto 25. The hour when climbers cannot pause had come the sun had left to Taurus the meridian and night had left it to..."
"Okay, so this is a great question. Okay. So, I thought he saw these shades becoming much more emaciated. Okay. And that is like,..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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