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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Squandering
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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..."
"left and right were so squint -eyed of mind in the first life no spending that they did was done with measure their voices..."
"...author there talks about how there has been a kind of squandering of all of these supposed movements by Israel over the past two..."
"...tremendous wealth of Egypt, almost unlimited wealth of Egypt, and just squandering it, gambling it away, basically, in the promise of an eternal afterlife...."
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