The Shape Practice Leaves
Alessio of Lucca is soused in filth and still wants to be recognised. His flatteries, he says, never could glut the tongue. Thais is pointed out as the professional version: a yes so inflated it became a trade. Malebolge is architecture. The first pouches are for people whose instrument was speech. The residue of the instrument is the climate they inhabit.
Key Insight
What you use people as, you become soaked in. If your advantage is a mouth that will say the pleasing thing past the point of truth, the ditch is not a later poetic justice. It is the product.
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