Cruna dAgo from Dantes Infernal Puzzle Collection: The gate passed which the second circle lay was guarded by a fearsome judge of all. There Minos stood most horridly, and snarled, examining transgressions at the gate, and he, discriminator of all sins, can see the place in hell for each damned soul. Before him stood a spirit bold of girth, one much given to self-aggrandizement. “I traded hard,” he said. “That much is true. But with that came considerable success. With just two hundred florins did I start, but each new year I had increased my pot by half of what Id had twelve months before. Eighteen such years straight did I attain, and truly mighty did my wealth become.” “Yet here you are,” I said, “facing a judge - one who I would reckon cant be bought - without even a florin still to hand.” What fortune did the spirit leave behind?
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