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The canto reading presents avarice as a divided economy of hoarding and squandering, dramatized by souls crashing weights into one another while accusing each other of opposite excesses.
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Hoarding
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "so even as waves that break above charybdis each shattering the other when they meet so must the spirits here dance their round dance..."
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Jiang compares endless money-making to hoarding newspapers: both are anxiety behaviors, but society pathologizes one and praises the other.
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"so even as waves that break above charybdis each shattering the other when they meet so must the spirits here dance their round dance..."
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"left and right were so squint -eyed of mind in the first life no spending that they did was done with measure their voices..."
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"...and I fill up newspapers. Everyone would say that I am hoarding, okay? The word is hoarding. And it is a disease, right? It's..."
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"...It's all in the bank, okay? How is that different from hoarding? How is that different from me collecting newspapers and just putting it..."
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"...against us. If they are engaged in economic speculation. If they're hoarding food. These are all enemies. They're trying to sabotage the revolution. Therefore,..."
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