atoms: grl-afraid: Dante and Virgil before Pier della Vigna, an 1890 engraving by Gustave Doré. Sins of the lion in the seventh division of Hell: violence against neighbours, violence against oneself, and violence against God. This is the Wood of the Suicides. The souls of those who destroyed their bodies are encased in thorny trees, denied any resemblance of a body even in Hell. Ther are picked at, their leaves are eaten, and branches are pulled off by harpies, and it is only when they bleed from these wounds that they are allowed to speak. The wounds heal only to be re-opened by the harpies for all eternity.

atoms:

grl-afraid:

Dante and Virgil before Pier della Vigna, an 1890 engraving by Gustave Doré.

Sins of the lion in the seventh division of Hell: violence against neighbours, violence against oneself, and violence against God. This is the Wood of the Suicides. The souls of those who destroyed their bodies are encased in thorny trees, denied any resemblance of a body even in Hell. Ther are picked at, their leaves are eaten, and branches are pulled off by harpies, and it is only when they bleed from these wounds that they are allowed to speak. The wounds heal only to be re-opened by the harpies for all eternity.

atoms: grl-afraid: Dante and Virgil before Pier della Vigna, an 1890 engraving by Gustave Doré. Sins of the lion in the seventh division of Hell: violence against neighbours, violence against oneself, and violence against God. This is the Wood of the Suicides. The souls of those who destroyed their bodies are encased in thorny trees, denied any resemblance of a body even in Hell. Ther are picked at, their leaves are eaten, and branches are pulled off by harpies, and it is only when they bleed from these wounds that they are allowed to speak. The wounds heal only to be re-opened by the harpies for all eternity.

atoms:

grl-afraid:

Dante and Virgil before Pier della Vigna, an 1890 engraving by Gustave Doré.

Sins of the lion in the seventh division of Hell: violence against neighbours, violence against oneself, and violence against God. This is the Wood of the Suicides. The souls of those who destroyed their bodies are encased in thorny trees, denied any resemblance of a body even in Hell. Ther are picked at, their leaves are eaten, and branches are pulled off by harpies, and it is only when they bleed from these wounds that they are allowed to speak. The wounds heal only to be re-opened by the harpies for all eternity.

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