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Updike’s anti-hero, Piet, dreams one night after a party that he is an old, old minister making house calls. He is relieved when a German policeman arrests him. So the souls of the Second Circle of Hell will still have enough innocence to accept their divine punishment with grateful acquiescence, while buffeted by the gloomy infernal storm.