A student explains the rain punishment by saying it leaves the glutton thirsty and dependent on tiny drops that never truly satisfy desire.
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Rain
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Another student argues endless rain mirrors gluttony because it too is a more-and-more excess that never reaches satisfaction.
For Jiang, the endless rain on the glutton is not arbitrary torment but an outward manifestation of gluttony itself: a desire structure that cannot stop.
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"...all there's this saying the fires of last so symbolically the rain is meant to put out the firebalast and not so symbolically like..."
"Be given to you as a punishment. Yes. Like endless rain."
"...is that is just an expression of your gluttony okay a rain that can't stop okay does that make sense okay that's why hell..."
"...of july of the awkward time the house of the flourished rain entered on this day and ceiling and not to the white by..."
"...receives may serve us cause here, no thing else. Therefore no rain, no hail, no snow, no dew, no hoarfrost falls here any higher..."
"...in the air moist vapor will gather and again revert to rain as soon as it has climbed where cold unfolds his evil will..."
"...mending your bridle when the saddles empty indeed, was there no rains, your shame or less are you, who have you understood what God..."
"...on his own sword, upon Gilboa, which never after knew the rain, the dew. O mad Arachne, I saw you already half -spider, wretched..."
"...upon the right? I found them here, he answered. When I rain down to this rocky slope, they've not stirred since and will not..."
"Now rain bathes my bones, the wind has driven them beyond the kingdom, near the Verdi's banks, where he transported them with tapers bent...."
"...holds, or those driven before the wind, or those on whom rain falls, or those who clash with such harsh tongues, why are they..."
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