Word: contrapasso
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Pinsky remains faithful to the importance of the canto's "negativeness," which stems from suicide's result--the negation of the soul. The repetition of "no"s and "not"s evokes Dante's contrapasso, his system of retributive justice in which sin is literalized...
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