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PHLEGYAS MYTHICAL AGE : *?<br />
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC<br />
GREECE.<br />
DESCRIPTION<br />
*<br />
PHLEGYAS AVENGED HIS DAUGHTER CORONIS, RAPED BY APOLLO, BY BURNING DOWN THE GOD’S TEMPLE AT DELPHI FOR<br />
WHICH HE WAS CONDEMNED TO TARTARUS.<br />
PHLEGYAS: & PHLEGYAS:<br />
INF C8 18 / DANTE INF C8 18 / KLINE<br />
che gridava: Or se' giunta, anima fella! who cried: Are you here, now, fierce spirit?<br />
AENEID 1 620 / VIRGIL or AENEID 1 620 / KLINE<br />
discite iustitiam moniti et non temnere<br />
diuos Learn justice: be warned, and don’t despise the<br />
gods.<br />
VIRGIL IS MORE THAN A BIT IRRITATED AT HAVING HIS OWN WORDS QUOTED AT HIM.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C8 19-21 / DANTE INF C8 19-21 / KLINE<br />
«Flegïàs, Flegïàs, tu gridi a vòto», My Master said: Phlegyas, Phlegyas,<br />
disse lo mio segnore, «a questa volta: this time you cry in vain: you shall not<br />
più non ci avrai che sol passando il loto». keep us longer than it takes us to pass the marsh.<br />
INF C8 22-30 / KLINE<br />
Phlegyas in his growing anger was like someone who listens to some great wrong done him, and then fills with<br />
resentment. My guide climbed down into the boat and then made me board after him, and it only sank in the water<br />
when I was in. As soon as my guide and I were in the craft, its prow went forward, ploughing deeper through the<br />
water than it does carrying others.<br />
DANTE WRITES AND REPEATS VIRGIL’S CRY, LICENSED TO DO SO FOR RECORDING PURPOSES.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C8 19 / DANTE INF C8 19 / KLINE<br />
«Flegïàs, Flegïàs!, tu gridi a vòto», My Master said: Phlegyas, Phlegyas,<br />
VIRGIL STEPS ON BOARD AND HELPS DANTE DO THE SAME.<br />
♫INFERNAL: BOAT TRIP? * * * * * * * * * *<br />
INF C8 19<br />
THE POETS REMAIN STANDING DURING THE ‘TRIP’. THE ‘BOAT’ MAY ONLY APPEAR TO MOVE<br />
(SUGGESTED BY THE SWIRLING, DARK ATMOSPHERE).<br />
OR, THE BOAT MOVES BY PHLEGYAS, VIRGIL AND DANTE SHUFFLING TOGETHER IN MOMENTS OF<br />
DARKNESS.<br />
ALTERNATIVELY, AGAIN, THE BOAT IS ALMOST REAL, A BOARD PULLED ACROSS THE STAGE FROM<br />
OFFSTAGE BY A ROPE. ANY JERKINESS WOULD FIT WITH PHLEGYAS’S ANGRY POLLING.<br />
AFTER A LITTLE WHILE, THE SPIRIT OF FILIPPO ARGENTI APPEARS AT THE EDGE OF THE STAGE AND<br />
MOVES SLOWLY TOWARDS THE BOAT ON HIS KNEES, AS IF WADING THROUGH MUD.<br />
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