... souls are blasted by a wind storm "eternal in its rage"(V.31). The lustful, like all sins of incontinence, makes "reason slave to appetite" (V.39). The lustful never truly commit themselves to a concrete relationship; they just flow freely from one person to the next. (i.e. there are no strings attached ... the soul; instead of a constant ascension to salvation, the soul makes the constant motion of a circle. The result being that there is no progress in any direction and an unnatural alignment in the body, "the neck and feet moved constantly in opposite directions" (XV.26-7). The body, a...

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