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[Mark Kohut]

p.868 middle...."the doges are gone.....how power can be an
expression of communal will, invisibly exercised in the dark that
surrounds each soul, in which penance must be a necessary term."

Anyone care to riff?

1) Does this explain what the two village guys did to Theign? 

2) Isn't some kind of communal will a largely positive thing in P's worldview? 
So, here too?

"Unless one has performed in his life penance equal to what he has exacted
from others, there is an imbalance in Nature."

Penance replaces the Protestant Ethic as cultural vision?
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