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chase a banner forever
pursued and stung by swarms of wasps and hornets
their trickles of blood feasted on by worms and maggots |
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| only torment is they were not baptized or introduced to the "real" religion, so they have no hope of getting into the real heaven. |
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| forever swept in the tempest of hell, without the light of god |
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| Cerberus rips and tears at them with his claws and teeth, while they lay swollen and obscene in their own filth |
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| the hoarders and the wasters |
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| they forever fight each other with dead weights, their souls dimmed with their fruitless rages |
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wrathful: attack one another in filthy slime
sullen: entombed in mud, below the waters pf the Styx, forever gargling the words of a grotesque hymn |
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| the fallen angels, the heretics |
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| lay in tombs wrapped in flames |
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| the violent against neighbours |
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| forever immersed in the boiling blood they spilt during life |
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| the violent against themselves |
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suicide: souls encased in thorny trees that are eaten away by the Harpies. With each twig or leaf bitten off, blood spurts out. Only then are they allowed to talk.
squanderers: pursued by ravening bitches, who track them down and tear them limb from limb |
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| the violent against God, Nature and Art |
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blasphemers: lie supine on a burning desert, while rain of fire pours down onto them
sodomites: run in circles on the desert with the fire-rain
usurers: huddle in groups on the desert |
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| the panderers and seducers |
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| in two lines, driven to a fast walk by horned demons who whip them |
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| put upside down into tube-like holes with the soles of their feet ablaze |
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| the fortune tellers and diviners |
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| their heads are put on backwards, so they must walk backwards forever, and their eyes are blinded with tears |
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| sunk in boiling pitch, and if they try to get out, demons lash at them and tear them with hooks |
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| walk round and round a small track, wearing great leaden robes, shaped like a monks, but decorated brilliantly |
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| reptiles coil around their hands and loins, painfully. Sometimes they go and pierce a jugular, the sinner then bursts into flames until only ashes remain, then is reformed painfully |
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| hidden from sight in flames |
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| they are cut by a demon with a sword, from the chops down to the loins, so their innards hang out. Then they must go back in line to have it done again |
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| darkness, stench, thirst, filth, diseases, a shrieking din. Some lie supine, while others run around tearing their fellow sinners to peices |
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| they must stand perpetually guard inside the well-pit |
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| immersed in ice with their necks and heads out |
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| immersed in ice with head out |
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| treacherous to guests and hosts |
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| eyes above ice but tears freeze |
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| encased completely in ice in distorted twisted positions |
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| has three faces, each tearing at a sinner. all rivers of guilt flow to him, and he bats his wings as if to escape but the ice freezes him more |
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