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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 32 -- To Cross the Styx<br />

We've encountered "crossing the Styx" multiple times<br />

along our underground river journey, but we'll add a few<br />

less-morbid examples.<br />

Let us begin in Jolly Old England. From Rump: or An<br />

Exact Collection <strong>of</strong> the Choycest Poems and Songs<br />

Relating to the Late Times by the Most Eminent Wits, from<br />

Anno 1639 to Anno 1661 (1662),<br />

A Boat for this Old Doctor<br />

To cross the River Styx<br />

For Pluto he<br />

Desired to see<br />

Some <strong>of</strong> his Antick tricks.<br />

"Dead Ones," Salt Lake Telegram, March 5, 1903,<br />

attempts a bit <strong>of</strong> wordplay.<br />

Blocks: I'll warrant thee Charon did make a great deal <strong>of</strong><br />

money out <strong>of</strong> his ferry across the river Styx.<br />

Stocks: Nay, friend, were they not all deadheads?<br />

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