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Master Adam identifies himself as the counterfeiter of florins with alloyed dross and links his present thirst to the place and desire of his past crime.
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Thirst
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...him part his lips like a consumptive who will because of thirst. Let one lip drop down to his chin and lift the other..."
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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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Jiang interprets the rare-reader passage as saying the deepest human hunger is thirst for God, and that proximity to God accelerates the soul’s movement toward him.
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"...him part his lips like a consumptive who will because of thirst. Let one lip drop down to his chin and lift the other..."
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"Look now and pay attention to this the misery of Master Adam alive. I had enough of all I wanted. Alas, I now long..."
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"If what the angry shades report is true, what use is that to me whose limbs are tied? Were I so light that in..."
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"of all there's this saying the fires of last so symbolically the rain is meant to put out the firebalast and not so symbolically..."
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"...he's saying is that our fundamental hunger, our fundamental need, our thirst is to return to God, okay? And he feels God is close..."
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"...see if I seemed satisfied. And I, still goaded by new thirst, was silent without, although within I said, perhaps I have displeased him..."
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"Canto 21. The natural thirst that never can be quenched except by water that gives grace, the drop that the simple woman of Samaria..."
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"...my desire that just the hope alone of knowing left my thirst more satisfied."
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"...And just as joy is greater when we quench a greater thirst, the joy He brought cannot be told in words. And my wise..."
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"...these souls who, grieving, sing because their appetite was gluttonous, and thirst and hunger, here, resent by themselves. The fragrance of the fruit and..."
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"...less dryness, drinking it poorly, and yet could never satisfy his thirst. But just as he looks and then esteems one more than another,..."
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"...guess it's kind of the same thing. Like, your soul can thirst for things. And so these ghosts or shadows are longing for the..."
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