A student first explains Lucifer's silence materially: he cannot speak because his mouth is occupied chewing a sinner.
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"Yeah, so his mouth is kind of busy, so he can't actually speak. But what else? Okay, alright. Did you have a comment? Okay...."
"...genius about Dante is that he actually does flesh out the mouth. He's a world maker, he's a world builder, but before that, hell,..."
"...for the marriage feast being seemingly and complete not for her mouth which now would intercede for you and when they when they drank..."
"...of what swift heaven's readying for them, then they would have mouths open now to howl. For if our foresight here does not deceive..."
"enough to open my mouth and ask him, how can one grow lean when there's never need for nourishment?"
"its turbulence the angry archiano at its mouth had found my frozen body and it thrust it into the arno and sat loose the..."
"...with the look of one Tulex in what he undertook, whose mouth, although the rest sing, does not move, was Emperor Rudolf, one who..."
"...this heat i pay reckoning for that and chiriato from his mouth their bulge to right and left two tusks like a wild hogs..."
"Malabolge runs right past me, into the mouth of its last well, the placement of each valley means it must have one bank high..."
"...at the serpent, one through his wound, the other through his mouth, where smoking violently their smoke met. Let Lucan now be silent, where..."
"...then he set on the jaw of a companion opening his mouth and shouting this is he and he speaks not a man cast..."
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