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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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Master Adam
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The canto makes falsifiers quarrel about relative guilt, but Virgil treats Dante's attraction to that quarrel as spiritually base.
definition
Jiang defines canto 30 as a zone of falsifiers that includes alchemists, impostors, counterfeiters, false witnesses, and related figures such as Sinon, Master Adam, Gianni Schicchi, and Myrrha.
diagnosis
Jiang says the quarrel between Master Adam and Sinon comes from their rage at being together despite being different types of falsifiers.
model
Jiang accepts the student's formulation that Master Adam and Sinon are alike because both manipulate people's perception of reality rather than reality itself.
evidence
Jiang explains that in Inferno 30 Sinon lies motionless in fever until hearing his own name, when he angrily strikes Master Adam and restarts their quarrel.
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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..."
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"Look now and pay attention to this the misery of Master Adam alive. I had enough of all I wanted. Alas, I now long..."
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"If what the angry shades report is true, what use is that to me whose limbs are tied? Were I so light that in..."
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"...belly. It sounded as if it had been a drum. And Master Adam struck him in the face using his arm which did not..."
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"Do not forget the horse, you perjurer, replied the one who had the bloated belly. May you be plagued because the whole world knows..."
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"So I became within my speechlessness. I wanted to excuse myself and did excuse myself, although I knew it not. Lest shame would wash..."
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"...are, okay? Okay, so these are the falsifiers, yes? You have Master Adam, who's a counterfeiter. You have a spy, who's a false witness...."
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"...so the two people who have an argument are Sinon and Master Adam, right? Master Adam is a counterfeiter. And Sinon is a Greek..."
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"...who are lepers, okay? Okay. So, that makes sense. Why would Master Adam, who's a counterfeiter, why would he argue with Sinon about who's..."
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"Yes? Because each of them feel like the other one shouldn't be at the same level where they are, you know? Like, every one..."
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"Yeah, yeah. So, they're different, right? And they're trying to figure out, like, why they're together. And they kind of piss that they're together...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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