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The sky power answers the fire-theft not with death but with a permanent alteration of the thief's body · and in both cases the wound is generative rather than terminal: the liver regrows nightly forever; the shattered limbs become the joints every human needs to work, kneel, and forge. The punishment is the gift's price paid in flesh, and the flesh keeps the receipt.
Zeus 'bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway' · the thief's punishment is written into his body and renews itself perpetually.
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