Finally giving in to his physical desires brings mixed emotions for Stephen, and feelings of guilt and shame soon overtake him, "From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk" (113). ... The vivid images of "fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness,"(130) and ...

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