1. Change in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
... resumes, Father Arnall delivers a sermon about hell. He describes what hell is like, "hell is a strait and dark and foulsmelling prison, and abode of demons and lost of souls, filled with fire and smoke" (110). He then describes the stench of hell: Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jellylike mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames ... of hell is the company of the devils. "These devils will afflict the damned in two ways, by their presence and by their approaches. These devils, who were once beautiful ange...
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