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| appro pos of the experiment is dante's contrasting of plutus, the classical god of wealth, and the spenders and hoarders with the goddess fortune in the fourth circle, canto vii : those who hoarded or over spent their riches reside between the gluttons and the wrathful and sullen : '... people, more than elsewhere, many. On one side and the other, with great howls, Rolling weights forward by main force of chest. They clashed together, and then at that point Each one turned backward, rolling retrograde, Crying, "Why keepest?" and, "Why sqaunderest thou?" Thus they returned along the lurid circle On either hand unto the opposite point, shouting their shameful metre evermore.' |
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