Dante's Divine Comedy 6

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Chapter title: The Third Circle

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Dante: Unnh...

Dante: Ah!

Dante: It's cold...

Dante: Rain...?

Dante: Rain and hail, even in sunken Hell?

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Dante: Maestro! Where are we?

Virgil: In the third circle.

Virgil: Rain, ceaseless, accursed, heavy, and cold, falls
In endless torrents upon this circle.
It is most unpleasant...
Let us go, Dante.

Dante: Yes, Maestro!

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Dante: This ground is...
Muddied by that tempest's fall....

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Dante: It stinks...
The mud reeks with such a stench...

Dante: Wah!
A hand!?

Dante: How is a human hand amongst this mud?
Ah! A foot!

Virgil: Worry not; 'tis the nature of this place.

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Dante: Waah! The hand moved!?

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Dude: Pain... such pain...
Aaahh...

Dante: Th-this is...
People... from the mud!?

Dante: Maestro!
Who are these people!?

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Dante: Aaah!!

Dante: What horrid species of devil is that!?

Virgil: These souls are those who knew not restraint,
Who were damned for greed and avarice bare:
This rain falls upon the shameless gluttons!

Virgil: They cared not for others, only themselves,
And their selfish greed has sunk them to Hell.

Virgil: Look well upon that black figure; it is
Cerberus, cruel monster, fierce and strange!

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Virgil: That it may never cease its devouring,
Three mouths it has, all three ever-gnawing.

In it personified is gluttony,
That vice of those cast down into this mud.

Forever doomed to be eaten by him,
That cursed embodiment of their sins,
That is this Hell!

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Girl: Kyaaaa!

Dante: Is gluttony truly so great a crime?
Do these souls really deserve such fate?

Virgil: These are the gluttons,

upon which it feeds!

Do not forget the nature of such ones!

You of Firenze, city of gluttony,
In which far too many from hunger die!

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Virgil: They committed the sin of gluttony...
Such a hellish torment befits them well.
Cerberus, with his sharp and wicked claws;
He rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them.

Virgil: And once devoured, they, when excreted,
Become the foul substance that forms this mud.

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Virgil: And from that mud they once again rise up,

Virgil: And again face voracious Cerberus.

Dante: Then... this mud... is itself made of people?
Augh!

Virgil: They shall recover soon; step upon them,

Virgil: To walk easily.

Dante: B-but...

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Dante: Uwaah! Cerberus is coming at us!

Virgil: Quickly, pick up and cast the mud at him!

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Dante: Uwaa!

Virgil: Come on!
Throw it! (bold)

Dante: Sorry!

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Virgil: Quickly, escape!

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Dante: Waaaaa!
Uwaaaaa!

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Dante: Waaaa!

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Dante: Haa... haa...
Haa...

Dante: Ha... ha...

Dante: Fuu...

Ciacco: Oooh, it's you!

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Ciacco: You, who through the infernal shades are led,
Answer, if you remember who I am!

Dante: Ah... it seems not I have ever seen you...

Ciacco: I am Ciacco, the pig!*
Don't you know me?

* In common Italian at the time of Dante, 'ciacco' meant pig or hog.

Dante: Ciacco...? No, I don't know you.
But still, doleful is your punishment...

Dante: But speak now, that I may remember well
The excessive misery of your state!

Ciacco: Ahh...
For the pernicious sin of gluttony
I am, as you see, hammered by this rain.
Perhaps that is truly as it should be!
Hehehe...

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Ciacco: Hehehehe...
But I, sad soul, am not the only one!

Our city, Firenze, swirls with desire --
'Tis such a despicable condition!

Many people have already fallen,

And many more, down to Hell, shall yet fall!

Ciacco: Some will fall even further than this ring.
Ahehehe... serves them right.

Dante: And... after that?
Please, tell me of the divided city:
What shall at length befall the citizens?

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Ciacco: At length, a battle comes, and the White Guelphs
Chase the other with much injury forth.

Then afterwards behoves it this one fall
Within three suns, and rise again the other*.

* The Black Guelphs, who took power from the White Guelphs.

Dante: Then the Black Guelphs prevail after all?
No...

Ciacco: The just are two*, but are not understood
In that city of wanton gluttony.

* The identities of the "two just men" Dante refers to are unknown.

In Firenze...

Ciacco: Envy and Arrogance and Avarice
Are the three sparks that have all hearts enkindled.

But I shall not talk of further than this.

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Ciacco: No more I tell you, and no more I answer.

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Virgil: Know that he, Ciacco, shall wake no more
This side the sound of the angelic trumpet.

Dante: The angelic trumpet...?
What is that?

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Virgil: That is the time of the Final Judgment!

Virgil: Each one shall find again his dismal tomb,

Shall reassume his flesh and his own figure,
Shall hear what through eternity re-echoes.

Dante: Maestro! Then, please tell me... shall these torments,
When the great sentence passes, be lessened?

Virgil: No!

Virgil: They will not be spared.

Virgil: Know that they shall become more perfect, but...

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Virgil: As each thing to more perfection grows,

It feels more sensibly both good and pain.

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