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As they leave the souls of the Proud, Virgil calls the Pilgrim’s attention to a series of carvings in the bed of rock beneath their feet. These are the examples of the vice of Pride, of the haughty who have been brought low. Depicted in the carvings are Satan, the giant Briareus, Nimrod, Niobe, Saul, Arachne, Rehoboam, the slaying of Eriphyle by her son Alcmeon, Sennacherib’s murder by his sons, the slaughter of Cyrus by Tomyris, the destruction of Holofernes and the rout of the Assyrians, and finally the fall of Troy. As they continue circling the ledge Virgil admonishes the Pilgrim to lift his head in anticipation of the Angel of Humility. With a brush of his wings, the angel removes the first P from the Pilgrim’s forehead, and, as the two poets make their way through the pass to the next terrace, they hear a sweetly resounding song - the beatitude "Blessed are the Poor in Spirit". The Pilgrim now feels himself to be lighter, since one of the P’s has been removed and is able to climb with considerably less effort.
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dripping with drool from the nerve of this sentence.
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STOCK?
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we're chained to the world and we all gotta pull
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we're chained to the world and we all gotta pull
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