Mercury has to get
old Charon, who is the ferryman for rowing souls over the Styx ... which is
a river all the dead have to cross ... and my aunt, who's dead and full of
fun ... oh, I'm sure she still is full of fun ... always said it was the
most interesting place in spiritual geography.
UNCLE EDWARD. Steady! Steady!
ALICE. You told me she said so.
UNCLE EDWARD. In private. Mercury gets Charon...?
ALICE. To ferry him across. And on the earth side they meet ...
UNCLE EDWARD. Not so fast.
ALICE. They meet a Greek philosopher whose name is ...
UNCLE EDWARD. Hipponax.
ALICE. Aren't some of these names dreadfully difficult to remember.
Hipponax has just died, and he is waiting to be ferried over. And it's
rather awkward for him, as, when he was alive, he wrote a book to prove
there weren't any gods and there wasn't any after life. And then comes
Momus, who's a sort of half-god, not important enough to be rowed over, but
he has swum the river as he wants to join the party. Hipponax stays to look
after Charon's boat.
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