The packet closes by introducing the Styx as the visible domain of wrath above and sullen bitterness below the waterline.
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Styx
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The quoted Styx passage frames sullenness as inward sluggishness that hardens into bitter muteness beneath black mud.
Jiang treats the Styx as a demarcation line in hell's geography, signaling entry into worse sins than lust, gluttony, greed, and anger as first encountered above.
Below the Styx, Jiang says the sinners are no longer merely making life miserable but disrupting the fundamental structure of the universe.
The quoted canto shows wrath embodied in Filippo Argenti, whose fury degrades him into a mud-soaked object of communal tearing and self-biting.
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"water course that spills into a trench formed by its overflow that stream was even darker than deep purple and we together with those..."
"the slime they say we had been sullen in the sweet air that's gladdened by the sun we bore the midst of sluggishness in..."
"okay all right yes i wonder what is um the river styx doing here excuse me um why why are they"
"drowned in the rivers okay all right so when you read the divine comedy each of these different realms whether they are uh inferno..."
"master said we're yours no longer than it will take to cross the muddy sluice and just as one who hears some great deception..."
"long remain though you're disguised by filth i know your name then he stretched both his hands out toward the boat at which my..."
"i had heard these words i saw the muddy sinner so dismember him that even now i pray to him that he may be..."
"...cavern's floor, and crossing rocks into this valley, from Akron and Styx to Phlegthon."
"...the geography of hell very intimately now we cross the river styx and we enter we are about to enter the city of dis..."
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