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LUCIFER<br />
DESCRIPTION<br />
VOICE ONLY.<br />
Damn God’s spies!<br />
Damn your books. They’re packs of lies<br />
HE GOES ON TO DAMN THE PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS…<br />
…………….………………<br />
Damn Italians, those who are<br />
From Florence in particular.<br />
…THE SONNET AND SICILY FOR INVENTING IT, TERZA RIMA, SONG AND SINGERS, THE SAINTS, FAITH,<br />
HOPE AND LOVE:<br />
Damn the ladies, Be-a-tri-ce<br />
Not included: what a peach, eh,<br />
Dante! Do I see your Gemma<br />
In the Sienese Maremma?<br />
MOST OF THE DAMNING IS STILL BEING COMPOSED. SATAN FINISHES WITH<br />
RETURNED<br />
Damn the Primum Mobile,<br />
The colours in eternal play,<br />
The whirling planetary spheres,<br />
The music for immortal ears,<br />
The Empyrean - the sham!<br />
Whatever I may be, I am!<br />
DAMN!<br />
VIRGIL EMERGES FROM THE LOWER STEPS, DANTE BEHIND HIM. THEY STEP FORWARD INTO THE BRIGHT<br />
LIGHT AND RAISE THEIR EYES.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C34 127-129 / DANTE INF C34 127-129 / KLINE<br />
Luogo è là giù da Belzebù remoto Down there, is a space, as far from Beelzebub<br />
tanto quanto la tomba si distende, as his cave extends, not known by sight,<br />
che non per vista, ma per suono è noto but by the sound<br />
INF C34 130-132 / DANTE<br />
d'un ruscelletto che quivi discende of a stream falling through it, along the bed<br />
per la buca d'un sasso, ch'elli ha roso, of rock it has hollowed out,<br />
col corso ch'elli avvolge, e poco pende. into a winding course, and a slow incline.<br />
INF C34 133-135 / DANTE<br />
Lo duca e io per quel cammino ascoso The guide and I We entered by that hidden path,<br />
intrammo a ritornar nel chiaro mondo; to return to the clear world: and,<br />
e sanza cura aver d'alcun riposo, not caring to rest,<br />
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