Jiang says the anti-Purgatory souls do things that never happen in hell: they sing together, embrace one another, and touch each other affectionately.
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"That's right. They're happy. They're optimistic. Exactly. Yes. And also what are they doing that that never happens in hell? They're embracing each other...."
"...the sinners just look at it and they're not able to touch it and they become much more hungry and as it may say..."
"...woman is love's fire, when not rekindled frequently by eye or touch. The serpent that assigns the Milanese their camping place will not provide..."
"...and toward the other. That all who watch feel quickly, pity's touch, not only through the words that would entreat, but through the sight..."
"but he says there's a higher power protecting me so don't touch me"
"...the singer seems so satisfied as if no other thing might touch, touch my, our minds."
"...most creative because heaven is kind of a place you can't touch or manipulate whereas in hell he can create his own story and..."
"...around as fast as you can but you can never actually touch the cake okay so yeah so maybe um cake out of reach..."
"...You. Know. The. Love. Is. Something. That. You. Cannot. You. Cannot. Touch. You. Really. Want. It. But. You. Cannot. Touch. That. Is. Love. You...."
"...You understand, okay? Like, if you're God, right, and, like, you touch... And the mother says, wow, the life you've led was so exemplary...."
"...has made me so that this song ofêeller your misery cannot touch me. I can withstand the fire's flaming here. In heaven there's a..."
"reading like the previous contos i think we did touch upon a point that like god will hear what you want but like it..."
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