While he traveled, he thought about the lecture that he was going to deliver at the university,
on lust in Dante. Lust was a sin that he found himself thinking of often and with much enjoyment.
In fact, the thought of lust and its myriad satisfactions was so tantalizing, Professor Emerson
found himself pulling his trench coat closed so the slightly spectacular sight of the front of his
trousers would not attract untoward attention.