https://vegasharmon.com/works/the-inner-ring/ Recent content in The Inner Ring on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-inner-ring-chasing-it-guarantees-you-ll-never-belong/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-inner-ring-chasing-it-guarantees-you-ll-never-belong/ That is my first reason. Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things. My second reason is this. The torture allotted to the Danaids in the classical underworld, that of attempting to fill sieves with water, is the symbol not of one vice, but of all vices. It is the very mark of a perverse desire that it seeks what is not to be had.