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The thieves' punishment joins serpents, incineration, and repeated reconstitution, with Vanni Fucci identified as a church thief whose crime also caused someone else to be blamed.
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Thieves
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The student's serpent allusion Jiang endorses is that the thieves' transformation repeats the original serpent's robbery of Adam and Eve's paradise.
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"He said, just request is to be met in silence by the, by the act. We then climbed down the bridge just at the..."
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"with force at one who stood upon our shore, transfixing him just where the neck and shoulders from a knot. No O or I..."
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"Oh, how severe it is, the power of God, that, as its vengeance showers down such blows. My guide then asked that sinner who..."
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"set down so far because I robbed the sacristy of its fair ornament, and someone else was falsely blamed for that. But lest the..."
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"...sure sure sure um the idea that well the he the thieves get turned into snakes and the question is well who else got..."
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"exactly you're exactly right yes um um and in fact milton will use this metamorphosis for paradise laws because in paradise laws uh the..."
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"...Inferno. And here in the circle of fraud, we now meet thieves. Okay. Can I ask you a question? I mean like we've been..."
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"...The problem is like he got away with it. That's why thieves are worse than, than everyone else because they often get away with..."
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"Yeah. And I also feel like while the thieves are like deceiving the others through like stealing, they're also kind of like deceiving themselves...."
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"Okay. Yeah. So again, the punishment is these guys, these thieves are being bitten by snakes, right? Which kills them. Well, that's a metaphor..."
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"...wings. Through every part of Hell your name extends. Among the thieves I found, five citizens of yours and such. That shame has taken..."
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"...was no need to have his sons endure such torment oh thieves renewed their years were innocent and young brigada to ubuchoni and the..."
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