Canto VI/1 Perpetually, and under perpetual rain the gluttons consume their own squalor in a parody of their innately dismal earthly self indulgence. They fall, like rain into a swamp, and become indistinguishable from one another. This vision of Dante is summed up in the first and last pictures of the canto. Here an identical pig is repeated amidst the falling rain. The initial comic effect is reduced by the fact that the pig here pictured is itself already cut and marked for consumption: it comes from a butcher's diagram in a Victorian recipe book. This association is underlined in the third illustration. The repetition of the animal here of course refers to the repetitive monotony of both the sin and its punishment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.