PURGATORIO, Episode 153. Stuck To The Ground (Sometimes): PURGATORIO, Canto XIX, Lines 70 - 90
Dante and Virgil now walk along the fifth terrace of Mount Purgatory, seeing penitent souls who are face down, stuck to the earth, unable to turn over. Virgil wants to get on up to the next terrace but Dante the pilgrim wants to stop and talk to one of these penitents.
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