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The creatures that feed on the leaves of the suicide trees, producing pain that becomes their outlet for speech.
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harpies
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...harsh and dense. This is the nesting place of the foul harpies who chase the Trojans from the Strupefates with sad foretelling of their..."
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Canto 13 introduces the second ring of violence as a black, pathless wood inhabited by harpies and by human souls transformed into thorny trees.
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"...harsh and dense. This is the nesting place of the foul harpies who chase the Trojans from the Strupefates with sad foretelling of their..."
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"From every side I heard the sound of cries, but I could not see any source for them, so that in my bewilderment I..."
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"...It rises as a sapling, a wild plant, and then the harpies feeding on its leaves cause pain, and for that pain provide a..."
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"...bodies are now just trees. And what happens is that the harpies come and eat the berries that they grow, okay? They feel this..."
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"...Buy it in the form of a jaguar, anaconda, tapar, or harpy eagle, okay? So the concept here is karma, right? If you do..."
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"...be it in the form of a jaguar anacona tap or harpy eagle okay it's something that we discussed in the cave paintings why..."
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