What is sotomayor's intended purpose in posing three powerful questions in a row?

there is no reason to represent a false dillemma.

  dante alighieri wrote the divine comedy, a description of a spititual journey. when he wrote it , he was in exile. in florence, dante's native city, there was a social strife, they had political turmoil, and some of the   florentine names included in the narrative may have been a way that dante used to criticize his fellow citizens.

gothic and dark natured

whatever is after like is what is being compared they are comparing bumping into you like they are scared to catch germs you have and to you being contagious