The Modern Divine Comedy Book 5: Purgatorio 1 Entry

By Andrew J. Farrara

The Purgatorio is the celestial afterworld where all people who die on Earth first immediately arrive to be purged and processed in their after-life by the Angels and Wise Prophets.
The Journalist Romano as Adam & the ancient Prophet Zarathustra arrive to attend the Annual Lantern Parade in the attached Paradiso but will experience all the aspects of the Purgatorio before moving onto the Paradiso.
The Café Graeco-Roman is the largest public café in the Celestial Kingdom where souls gather to discuss their personal, recreational and theological concerns amidst conspiratorial undercurrents led by the diabolical Devil and his tough-talking Three Crown Princes arriving as both undercover comedians and Garcons.

The World’s main religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity and Islam and the Primitive Religions as well are explored by both the Young French Professeur and the Extraordinary School Children.
The Conspiracy Theorists are introduced while Celestial Tour Announcements about Guided Trips to Earth are permitted to those who qualify are given all day.
A Literary Intermezzo is offered to display the literature greats forming their Literary Collective which include souls like Chaucer, Charles Dickens, the Grimm Brothers, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Shelley, Lady Murasaki, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shakespeare, the Russian existentialists & others.

Theological and Intellectual debates are also offered with the ancient Greek philosophers of Socrates & Plato & Aristotle to the modern thinkers Darwin, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, Voltaire, Rabelais & others.
Ideologies and Faiths are also explored in Chapters with the subjects of the True Authorship of the Christian New Testament & the Higher Criticism of the Bible.
GOD also has approved an Interstellar Scientific Project designed to explore the Universe with celestial physicists, mathematicians, bio-chemists, bio-technologists, behavioral scientists, political economists, philosophers, existentialists, theologians etc. all assisted by Albert Einstein among others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781663245168

Andrew J. Farrara

World traveler, writer, adventurer, entrepreneur, artist, romantic poet, Italian opera affezionato, ex-rugby player, and political animal! Andrew J. Farrara was born in Reading, Pa. in September 1950 and educated in the Reading School District. Coming-of-age in then-industrial Pennsylvania gave him an insatiable wanderlust. Since 1967 the author has traveled to over 135 countries and territories as determined by the Travelers’ Century Club lastly on a cruise from Genoa through the Suez Canal to the island of Mauritius and a flight to Madagascar, Ethiopia and England in 2019. He has visited all Seven Continents, including Antarctica, every State of the United States except North Dakota, and has conducted three around-the-world backpacking expeditions; for 8 weeks in 1983; 220 days in 1987-88; and 5 weeks in 2018. The second trip was the subject of his book entitled Around the World in 220 Days: Notes of an American Traveler Abroad published by Infinity Press in 2004. The author holds a BA in History and Political Science (1972) and an MA in Modern European History (1975) from Kutztown University, Pa. He taught social studies and history part-time in the Reading School District and at the Reading Area Community College before serving as an elected Reading School Board member from 1975 to 1977. Farrara served honorably in the Pennsylvania Air and Army National Guard from 1972 to 1978 as a Telecommunications Center Specialist in the 193rd Tactical Electronic Warfare Group at Middletown, Pa and as a Tank Crewman, Machine Gunner & Loader in the 103rd Armor & as an Infantry Soldier & Radio Operator in the 111th Infantry at the Kutztown Armory, Pa. from 1973 to 1978. The author held the positions of Supervisor then Superintendent of Recreation for the City of Reading from 1978 to 1987 resigning his later position to conduct his nine-month Around the World trip from Dec 1987 to Aug 1988. The author was also trained, certified and graduated from the 160-hour residential District Magistrate Program of the Minor Judiciary Education Board at Wilson College in Chambersburg Pennsylvania in 1982 and as a Pennsylvania Police Officer completing the 480-hour Reading Police Academy in 1983-4. He also completed a Para-Legal Certificate Program in 1976-77 at Penn State Berks Campus. Andrew J. Farrara currently operates an independent insurance agency in Reading since 1988 and spends his free time writing, observing, traveling, painting, and learning. In attempting to keep in shape intellectually and physically his personal motto has always been the well-known Chinese proverb: “Civilize the mind but make savage the body.” The author is presently working on an additional novel entitled Bonfire of the Gods about a group of world travelers taking a Grand Tour of Italia in 1896 starting in Rome Italy moving down to the mysterious Mezzogiorno of Napoli and Sicilia.

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THE

MODERN

DIVINE

COMEDY

8-PART SERIES

BOOK 1 INFERNO 1 DESCENDING

BOOK 2 INFERNO 2 ASCENDING

BOOK 3 LIMBOLAND 1 ENTRANCE

BOOK 4 LIMBOLAND 2 DEPARTURE

BOOK 5 PURGATORIO 1 ENTRY

BOOK 6 PURGATORIO 2 DEPARTURE

BOOK 7 PARADISO 1 ENTRY

BOOK 8 PARADISO 2 DEPARTURE

CONTENTS

TIME:

GREAT HEROIC PAST, SOME PRESENT & BIT OF FUTURE.

Our Hero thinks it’s Christmas Day December 25, 1895 but it is

really the early 21st Century.

STAGE SUB-TIME:

HOLY LANDS FROZEN in 1st CENTURY A.D.

PLACE:

PARADISO, PURGATORIO, & INFERNO & LIMBOLAND

MENTAL SUB-PLACE:

HEAVENLY SUBCONSCIOUS

CLIMATE:

PERFECT SUB TROPICAL COOLING HAWAIIAN TRADE WINDS

THEMES:

MORTALITY & IMMORTALITY

in all its contradictions & imperfections

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

(Cast of Characters)

JOURNALIST

The First Man ADAM & Himself

being Investigative Foreign Correspondent

as Andrew Romano on a Divine Odyssey

ZARATHUSTRA

Celestial Tour Guide, Chariot Driver & Divine friend for Journalist,

Prophet-Philosopher & founder of Zoroastrianism

WISE PROPHETS

Unnamed Daily Leaders in the Kingdom

ARCHANGELS

Administrators of the Celestial Kingdom

HOLY ANGELS VEZY & SARA

Special Narrators

DIVINE CHORUS

Conservative & Reactionary souls/consciences of Mankind/ Many Humanities

PEANUT GALLERY

Liberal & Radical souls/consciences of Mankind/Many Humanities

OTHER HOLY ANGELS

Monitors of Mortals on Earth, pure, chaste, innocent but some could be

mischievous with underestimated intelligence

THE DEVIL

Oops, we forgot, still up to his conniving & evil tricks

MEPHISTOPHELES, LUCIFER & SATAN

Three Crown Princes of Evilness & Evil Clones of the Devil

Oops, we wanted to forget

THE ALMIGHTY GOD

The Most Powerful, the Big Guy, Omnipotent, Omnipresent,

Omnibenevolent & Omniscient

Called the Big Dog by the Devil

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS

Occasional private episode Scene exposing

the Devil’s & his Three Crown Princes’

Furtive attempt to Conspire & Control

the Limboland Arenas & Celestial Kingdom

GOD’S THREE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS:

In Background:

HOLIEST WARRIOR

GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO

HUNCHBACK HOLY MAN

aka

OLD HOLY MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

Mysterious seeker of the Divine Truths &

Wisest of all Wise philosophers &

Real Subconscious of Mankind

OTHER CHARACTERS INCLUDE:

DENIZENS OF PURGATORIO & LIMBOLAND & INFERNO

Concerned about mortality & immortality

some petitioning for entrance to Paradiso

MANY PAGAN, BIBLICAL, & HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION in Table of Contents

PROFANITY WORDS

Bleeped

VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST & SWISS PSYCHOANALYST

Roaming & Analyzing everyone & everything except themselves

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

Roaming & criticizing everyone & everything

EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Wandering students of burgeoning earthly & divine wisdom

YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR

Their Itinerant Teacher

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 46

LET THE CONQUEST BEGIN!

SCENE 46

CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS

ON WORLD BELOW

ON THE WAY TO CAFÉ GRAECO-ROMAN

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 47

THE THREE WISE MONKEYS SAY; "SEE NO

EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL."

THE DEVIL SAYETH; "SEE NO GOODNESS, HEAR

NO GOODNESS, AND SPEAK NO GOODNESS."

SCENE 47

SUB ROSA

BEHIND THE SCENES

PURGYWOOD TRYING TO ORGANIZE

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 48

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM—THE SPECTRE OF THE DEVIL’S GROSS VICIOUSNESS AND BARBARITY.

SCENE 48

STAGE CURTAIN

RISES

JOURNALIST & ZARATHUSTRA ENTER

VERY FATIGUED

PRELUDIO

PIANISSIMO

ANCIENT ROMAN HONOR GUARD

OUR LITERARY NARRATORS

THE TWILIGHT PSYCHOANALYTICAL

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 49

THE THREE CROWN PRINCES ARE LOOKING FOR A

TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES

AFTER THE DEVIL’S CONQUEST OF THE KINGDOM.

SCENE 49

MAIN PIAZZA

DIVINE BATHS OF CARACALLA

OVERTURE

FORTISSIMO

GOD CONFRONTS THE INVITED ARRIVING DEVIL

CHAPTERS

49-1JOURNALIST & ZARATHUSTRA ARRIVE EXHAUSTED

49-2PURGATORIO DOORS OPEN

49-3RELIGIOUS LEADERS MEETING TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE PURGATORIO

49-4ORIENTATION WORKSHOP REQUIRED FOR NEW ARRIVING SOULS

49-5DIFFERENT LANGUAGES BY DIFFERENT PEOPLES

49-6CONTROLLED CHAOS OF THE PURGATORIO

49-7UNPRECEDENTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF PROVISIONAL ANGELHOOD & ONE YEAR ACADEMIC RESEARCH TRIP TO EARTH

49-8DEVIL & HIS THREE MANIFESTATIONS CONSPIRING

49-9GOD HAS SPOKEN

49-10EXCEPTIONAL SCHOOL CHILDREN CHOSEN

49-11CHRISTIAN PROPHET SPEAKS TO MULTITUDE

49-12HOLIEST WARRIOR SPEAKS TO THE CROWDS

49-13NEW POLITICAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED NEXT YEAR

49-14REFORMATORY SCHOOLS FOR PROSTITUTES & DRUG ADDICTS

49-15VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSIONS GOING ON

49-16SECRET PROGRAM FOR FUTURISTIC ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

49-17SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS VISITING MARIANA TRENCH WITH HERMAN MELVILLE, CAPTAIN NEMO, CAPTAIN AHAB & JULES VERNE

49-18ANNOUNCEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES & LECTURES ON CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION

49-19VICTORIAN BRITISH FLEXING THEIR WEAKENING CULTURAL MUSCLES

49-20VIA DOLOROSA RE-ENACTMENT

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 50

THERE IS A CONNIVING WOMAN BEHIND

EVERY SUCCESS AND CRIME.

SCENE 50

SECRET REPORTS & RELIGIONS

EXPLORED

OVERTURE

CHAPTERS

50-1WORLD RELIGIONS GUIDE BY SCHOOL CHILDREN

50-2PRIMITIVE RELIGION

50-3ANCIENT NEAR EAST

50-4THE RELIGION OF JUDAISM

50-5THE RELIGION OF ZOROASTRIANISM

50-6THE RELIGION OF CHRISTIANITY

50-7THE RELIGION OF ISLAM

50-8HINDOOISM DISCUSSION DELAYED

50-9INDIAN RELIGION OF JAINISM

50-10BUDDHISM DISCUSSION DELAYED

50-11THE RELIGION OF SIKHISM

50-12BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ASIDE

50-13TAOISM RELIGION OF CHINA

50-14ZEN BUDDHISM SHORT INTERLUDE

50-15CONFUCIAN RELIGION IN CHINA

50-16YOUNG CHINESE MARXIST REVOLUTIONARIES ARRIVE

50-17HINDOOISM & BUDDHISM BRIEFLY

50-18INDIAN GURU ARRIVES

50-19YOUNG BOY ARRIVES TO IMPART HIS WISDOM

50-20JAPANESE SHINTOISM

50-21QUICK SUMMARY OF RELIGION

50-22SCHOOL CHILDREN DOING SOCIAL & POLITICAL EXPERIMENT

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 51

THE DEVIL MUST CHANGE!

SCENE 51

TANGLED WEB OF BIBLICAL

DECEPTIONS &

OTHER RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES

CHAPTERS

51-1THREE ROMAN EMPERORS & PHILO JUDEAS CREATING CHRISTIANITY SATIRE PLAY ABOUT HOLY SECRETS

51-2STORYTELLING CONTEST COMING

51-3HOWL YOWL GENERATION POETRY

51-4LOVE EVEN HAS A CELESTIAL OPERATIC CARMEN FURY

51-5DON JUAN IN PURGATORIO

51-6MOZART JUMPS FROM DIRECTOR SEAT

51-7LORENZO & OTHERS GIVE ADVICE TO MOZART

51-81⁹TH CENTURY DIPLOMATS DISCUSSING WORLD’S FUTURE IN ANOTHER PLAY

51-9YOSEMITE YOGI TORTURING THE EXERCISERS

51-10UNOFFICIAL OFFICIAL OFFERS A WHISPERING NOTE

51-11ECUMENICAL PREACHER PREACHING

51-12BIG MAMA MAMA OFFERING SPIRITUAL SESSION

51-13CONFUCIUS & LAO-TZU ASIDE

51-14FOUR PREACHERS PREACHING & OTHERS

51-15FREE TAI CHI LESSONS

51-16APOCALYPTIC CHRISTIAN & INTERFAITH MYSTIC SWAMI

51-17OLD TESTAMENT PREACHER ISAIAH

51-18INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN PREACHER

51-19CONDEMNATION OF SEXUAL PREDATORS

51-20WEST AFRICAN RADICAL SPEAKS REVOLUTION WHILE DEVIL’S AGENT TRIES TO SEDUCE TWO MILIARY MEN

51-21RADICAL ASTRONOMER OMAR KHAYYAM JR ARRIVES

51-22OMAR KHAYYAM’S OFFERS PREDICTIONS

51-23ROMAN PROSTITUTE & CALVINIST PREACHER MARRIED

51-24ANDRE NEYROO ACE REPORTER ARRIVES

51-25MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FIRST ORGANIZING

51-26AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REVISITED THRU A FAKE COLONEL & AN ENGLISH GUN RUNNER

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 52

THE WAR DRUMS WILL BE BEATING LONG AND HARD.

SCENE 52

CELESTIAL TOUR

ANNOUNCEMENTS

& PERFORMANCES &

SPEECHES GIVEN

CHAPTERS

52-1MYSTERIOUS FUTURISTIC ARCHEOLOGICAL & ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES TOUR OFFERED

52-2QUEST FOR HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS & CRADLE OF MANKIND TOUR OFFERED

52-3EARTHLY ART TREASURES TOUR ANNOUNCED

52-4PLANETARY SOLAR SYSTEM EXTRAVAGANZA FROM MERCURY TO PLUTO TOUR

52-5BACK TO PREACHING LITTLE WILLY WOODHAY

52-6THE E-I-E-I-O SATIRE SONG & ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE LIMBERICK BARD JUMPS ON

52-7ANARCHIST GUY HAWKES & POLYGAMIST SPEAK

52-8GREY GUERRILLA REVOLUTIONARY SPEAKS

52-9THE ANARCHISTS ET AL HAVE ARRIVED TO ASSESS

52-10BACK TO THE GREY GUERRILLA

52-11FRENCH REVOLUTIONARIES LISTEN TO SPEECH

52-12GREY GUERRILLA DISCOVERS HIS GENOGRAPHIC DESCENDANT

52-13EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHERS ASSESS THE GREY GUERRILLA

52-14FOUR PSYCHOANALYSTS DISCUSSING GREY GUERRILLA & FEMININE SEXUALITY

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 53

THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM IS SO UN-INFERNAL!

SCENE 53

RADICAL FEMINISTS

ON OFFENSIVE

CHAPTERS

53-1RADICAL FEMINISTS EXPOUND WOMENS LIBERATION

53-2JUST BLOWN AWAY WITH THE WIND

53-3ANCIENT GREEKS REBUKED BY RADICAL FEMINISTS

53-4WOMEN LIBERATION MOVEMENT ATTACKED AS ADOLESCENT

53-5FOUR PSYCHOANALYSTS ANALYZE WOMEN

53-6TWO MODERN AMERICAN FEMINIST ACTRESSES ARRIVED JUST TODAY & HAVE NOT YET BEEN PROCESSED

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 54

USING HATRED TO DESTROY EVERYTHING

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

SCENE 54

SPOOFING, SNOOPING,

GOOFING, POLITICKING,

ELECTIONEERING &

PHILOSOPHIZING

PERFORMANCES

CHAPTERS

54-1DECADENT DRAKYOOLA DEGENERATING DRAMA

54-2HINDOO SWAMI & AMERICAN WRITER ON STAGE

54-3GOVERNOR MORERUM PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS MANIPULATED BY CORRUPT POLITIKAL MACHINE BOSSES

54-4A MALE POLYGAMIST SUPPORTER PERFORMS

54-5PAPABEPPO RECRUITS NEW FOOTBALL PROGRAM AMID PEDOPHILIC SCANDAL PERFORMANCE

54-6NOW ONTO COACH PAPABEPPO & AMERICAN FOOTBALL

54-7REPORTERS HITCH-HITCH & ERIK PALLAZO SEARCHING FOR REAL TRUTH

54-8SHAME ON YOU, COACH PAPABEPPO: CELESTIAL REPORTER MAGGIE FULLER QUESTIONS ACTORS IN PEDOPHILIC SCANDAL

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 55

RUNNING A GOVERNMENT OF PEOPLE IS BECOMING EXHAUSTING ALREADY AND I HAVEN’T EVEN STARTED.

SCENE 55

ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN

SATIRICAL THEATRICAL

PERFORMANCES AMIDST OTHERS

WITH SOCRATES, PLATO &

ARISTOTLE INCLUDED OH MY!

CHAPTERS

55-1SOCRATES ON HOT SEAT GETS SOME HEAT

55-2SOCRATES ON PHILOSOPHICAL OFFENSIVE

55-3FEW SHORT PLAYS INTERLUDE CALLED OEDIPUS REX NUOVO

55-4YOUNG ANCIENT GREEK GIRL & HER MOMMIE DEAREST: THE PLAY BEGINS

55-5YOUNG ANCIENT ROMAN BOY & SENATOR FATHER: THE PLAY CONTINUES

55-6BACK TO THE MAIN PLAY OEDIPUS REX NUEVO

55-7GREAT EGPYTIAN SPHINX ARRIVES ON STAGE

55-8YOUNG OPERA SINGER BREAKS INTO OPERA

55-9THE TEN RELIGION GROUPS OF THE KINGDOM REPRIEVE

55-10PLATO ON HOT SEAT GETS SOME HEAT

55-11PLATO ON PHILOSOPHICAL OFFENSIVE

55-12ARISTOTLE ON HOT SEAT GETS SOME HEAT

55-13ARISTOTLE ASSESSING & ANALYZING RESEARCH

55-14SATIRICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE THREE PHILOSOPHERS CHALLENGED TO DEBATE BY GREATEST VICTORIAN DEBATER

55-15NEW THINK TANKS THINKING ABOUT THINKING & ARGUING ABOUT ARGUING

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 56

THE RUSSIANS HAVE INVADED. FROM AND

TO RUSSIA WITH HATE NOT LOVE.

SCENE 56

POLITICAL & DRAMATIC

THEATRE SCHEMING

SATIRE ACROSS AGES

CHAPTERS

56-1CHAIRMAN MAO MAO MAO’S POLITICAL ASSAULT

56-2TRICKY DICK DICK DICK OFFERS HIS POLITICAL TRICKS SATIRE

56-3SHAKESPEAREAN SANCTIMONIOUS & SAPIENT SATIRE

56-4BLIND WISE OLD MAN & YOUNG MAN SKIT ON SHAKESPEARE

56-5SHAKESPEAREAN SATIRIST ARRIVES

56-6WHO REALLY WROTE SHAKESPEARE??

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 57

THE DEVIL THINKS THAT WORDS DO MATTER.

SCENE 57

PHILOSOPHICAL &

THEOLOGICAL

CONUNDRUMS TOO

CHAPTERS

57-1SECRET SOCIETIES STILL SCHEMING

57-2CHRISTIAN APOSTLE PAUL RETURNS FROM INFERNO

57-3THE OTHER CHRISTIAN APOSTLES

57-4ROMAN COMMANDER HEAD GUARD CORNELIUS

57-5EASTERN WISE MAN & WESTERN STUDENT AT GATES & ANCIENT GREEK GODS PERFORMING

57-6WELCOMING PURGATORIO PIAZZA

57-7WISE PROPHET ECCLESIASTES FINALLY ARRIVES

57-8MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL

57-9RULING CLASS OF THE KINGDOM BEING DECONSTRUCTED

57-10WISE PROPHET JEREMIAH GIVES REPORT TO HOLIEST WARRIOR

57-11REASSESSING MOTHER LUCY & ORIGIN OF MANKIND

57-12IS THE COLD WAR REALLY OVER ASKS THE COLD WARRIORS ITCHING FOR ANOTHER WAR?

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 58

IT’S ALL ABOUT ME, MYSELF AND I, I AND MORE I!!!

SCENE 58

MAIN PIAZZA & ENVIRONS

SHENANIGANS PLAYED

CHAPTERS

58-1THE PALEOS ARE COMING

58-2MOTHER LUCY OF MANKIND FINALLY ARRIVES

58-3THE SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT ARRIVES WITH THE RENEGADE GENETICIST, PALEONTOLOGIST & ANTHROPOLOGIST

58-4BUDDHIST MONKS SEARCHING FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

58-5AMERICAN SWAMI O’LEARY CONVERTING SOULS

58-6THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS

58-7NEW WILD BUNCH RECRUITS JUST ARRIVED

58-8FIRST GREAT CELESTIAL EXPOSITION COMPETITION

58-9THE PEARLY GATES OF THE KINGDOM

58-10SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF THE AGES: CONCEALED, VEILED & REVEALED???

58-11PSYCHO-METRIC SURVEY BEING CONDUCTED

58-12MARXIST PHILOSOPHERS PHILOSOPHIZING BRIEFLY: MARCUSE, ADORNO & LUKACS

58-13UNIVERSITY STUDENTS LED BY MARIO SAVIO MOUNTING DEMONSTRATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM

58-14WHAT IS A LIFE WORTH ON EARTH?

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 59

THE DEVIL DOESN’T CARE ABOUT FACTS EXCEPT

THOSE THAT SUPPORT HIS ARGUMENTS.

SCENE 59

CONVERSATIONS BY KINGDOM’S

DIVERSE PEOPLES IN WORLD’S

LARGEST CAFÉ CAFÉ

GRAECO-ROMAN

CHAPTERS

59-1CAFÉ GRAECO-ROMAN APPEARS & IS DISSECTED

59-2NEW PILGRIMS ARRIVE IN PURGATORIO TODAY

59-3LIST OF CAFÉ GARCONS OR WAITERS

59-4NEW YORK & PARISIAN FEMINISTS PLOTTING

59-5MARK TWAIN FOLLOWED BY ANGELIC SEVEN RINGLER SISTERS ON EARTH PERFORMANCE

59-6ANGEL RUTH’S SATIRICAL PERFORMANCE USING MARK TWAIN’S PERSONAL EULOGY

59-7ANGELIC RINGLER SISTERS FUTURE EARTHLY VISITS FOLLOWING ANDREA ROMANO THROUGHOUT WORLD BELOW SEARCHING FOR THE HOLY SECRETS

59-8PROMINENT QUEENS PLAYING WARGAMES

59-9THE PUZZLING GAME IS ON

59-10ASSORTED CAFÉ CONVERSATIONS

59-11CICERO, SENECA & HORACE PLAYING DEVIL’S DISCIPLE

59-12THE WRITING OF HISTORY CHALLENGED AMONG OTHER SUBJECTS

59-13CAIN & ABEL RECONCILIATION TABLE OF FORGIVENESS PERFORMANCE

59-14SOME BAD BOYS OF HISTORY ARRIVE

59-15CONSPIRACY PLAYERS WRITE ULTIMATE ANGLO-AMERICA SPY NOVEL & PLAY

59-16GREATEST MILITARY LEADERS OF HISTORY #1 GLOATING & CONSPIRING TO REGAIN POWER

59-17TIBERIUS, KINGS HEROD, PONTIUS PILATE & THE TRIAL OF JESUS

59-18GREATEST MILITARY LEADERS IN HISTORY # 2 GLOATING & CONSPIRING TO REGAIN POWER

59-19GEORGE WASHINGTON PRESIDENT & SLAVEOWNER

59-20EMPERORS & EXPLORERS TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEIR GREATNESS

59-21WALKER’S IMMORTAL WARRIORS STILL PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW INFERNO

59-22MACHO HOMBRE PAPA ERNESTO HEMINGWAY WANTS TO JOIN WALKER’S IMMORTAL WARRIORS

59-23SCOTT SART-COMP WILL-NER GATSBY ON CHAIN AS SATIRE ON FITZGERALD, STEINBECK & FAULKNER

59-24SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN IN THE KINGDOM

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 60

THE DEVIL’S NEW DYSTOPIA IS DISCUSSED BRIEFLY.

SCENE 60

CAFÉ & PIAZZA RIPOSTE

INTERLUDE SCHERZOSO

MISCHIEVOUS ANGELS VEZY & SARA PLAYING ABOVE

CHAPTERS

60-1CAFÉ GRAECO-ROMAN REPRIEVE

60-2ARTISTS DESIGNING THE PIAZZA & CAFÉ

60-3MARY MAGDALENE ART GALLERY TOUR

60-4ANCIENT HERALD’S TOWN CRIER PROCLAMATIONS

60-5NERVOUS PETITIONERS FOR THE KINGDOM

INFERNAL WICKED

INTERRUPTUS 61

THE DEVIL’S FIRST AND LAST KISS DESTROYS ALL

USING HIS MASTER TRILOGY OF TERRORISTS.

SCENE 61

ORATORY EXTRAVAGANGA

ANYONE & EVERYONE CAN SPEAK ONE MINUTE

ON WHATEVER THEY WANT TO SAY

CHAPTERS

61-1CELESTIAL SPEAKERS CORNER OF OUTRAGEOUS ORATORY O’EXTRAVANGANZA & ANCIENT BIBLICAL COMEDY

61-2CINEMATIC IMMORTAL ACTORS & ACTRESSES & FILM SOULS COMING

61-3DOBIE GILLIS & MAYNARD G KREBS RETURNS FOLLOWED BY PHILLIPA FALLON BEAT POETESS & MALE BEATNIK POET ARRVING SO COOL TOO

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 46

LET THE CONQUEST BEGIN!

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: The Purgatorio is just waking up. Oops, we forgot to remind you of this. If you have not read Book One to Book Four yet the Devil has infiltrated the Celestial Kingdom in disguise with his Three Crown Princes known also as Mephistopheles, Lucifer and Satan. The Inferno has a section called INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS while we extended it to both the Purgatorio and Paradiso to permit the reader to understand the devious private machinations of the Devil and his Three Crown Princes plotting their conquest.

DEVIL: [pacing] It looks like Adam and Zarathustra made it to that puking perverted Purgatorio.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, we tried to stop them, Our Diabolical Devil, but, ah, they made it but we can sabotage Adam here very easily.

DEVIL: [pacing] Forget about it, you psychopaths. We have other Infernally important responsibilities to attend to.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We got your Santa Claus outfit and other means of disguise when we work as Celestial Garcons.

DEVIL: [pacing] Sometimes a Retreat is necessary before Victory.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing] Retreat is necessary before Victory! A Retreat is necessary before Victory.

DEVIL: [pacing] Don’t forget that I want you to capture Darwin, Marx, Freud and Einstein to pick their brains and…

THREE CROWN PRINCES: And Hegel and Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and Kant.

DEVIL: [pacing] Kant is too tough to understand! Who said that ‘the truth is the whole’ I wonder?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Hegel, we think.

DEVIL: [pacing] "A new book by me called Death by the Devil: A Diabolical Plan to Destroy the Purgatorio in One Day by MOI."

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We want to write a book but need a plot yet.

DEVIL: [pacing] Remember that we are also working as detectives or sleuths like Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Columbo, Perry Mason and Hercule Poirot together.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We like James Bond the best with all those sexy and easy women but we are nostalgic for them Detective television shows of the 1950s to the 1970s too.

DEVIL: [laughing] You guys are like the Hardy Boys or Scooby Gang.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, we do try hard.

DEVIL: [pacing] I know that members of the elite Celestial Wise Prophets still think we are psychotic and revengeful but so what!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Bully for them.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must establish an Infernal Agency that disseminates propaganda and disinformation and fake news like the New Russians.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: When things change here with the new technology and the new political system next year we must learn to use computers and social media to spy on everyone and…

DEVIL: [pacing] We’ll establish internet de-tox camps like the Communist Chinese do.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: And cell phone detox camps too.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must recruit and train white-collar criminals in accounting cheating, bank and tax fraud, identity theft and internet crime.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We are meeting with the New Russians, North Koreans and Cubans about that.

DEVIL: [pacing] They want to deal but on their own terms and I also understand they want control too.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We can’t give them any control or we’ll bust them down to Army privates.

DEVIL: [pacing] Maybe we ought to hire some fancy Private Eye-balls.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing & dancing] Fancy Private Eye-balls! Fancy Private Eye-balls!

DEVIL: [pacing] "We could operate a Devilish Politikal Fighting Club here having Liberals and Conservatives and Radicals and Reactionaries separately fighting in the political ring."

THREE CROWN PRINCES: If we can’t beat them in the ring we will sabotage them before by drugging them up.

DEVIL: [stops pacing] Stop! I cant’t stand any of the Celestial Kingdom because it’s too clean. My Devilish Office is too filthy! I want it cleaned up now.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [confused] Ah, we gotta do our thing in the Kingdom now, Our Devil, and have little time to clean up YOUR office being here and then...

DEVIL: [stops pacing] For some stupid reason my allergies just got kicked in and I smell the Infernal mold.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: The Big Dog is playing tricks on you, Our Devil.

DEVIL: [pacing] When we return to the Inferno I want you to organize a ‘bucket and mop’ brigade and clean my Devil’s Office and the last Ring to make it smell good. I have to turn over a new leaf being the New Conqueror of both the Limboland and Celestial Kingdom soon.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [smiling] We’ll get you a new barber too and get you to take a bath which we know you detest greatly.

DEVIL: [pacing] Everything in our after-life is a tradeoff.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Yes, we should not take ourselves too seriously too, Our Devil.

DEVIL: [pacing & complaining] My olfactory system of smell is awful now.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We now also smell the odour of dead skunk.

DEVIL: [pacing & complaining] Dead skunks, dead deer and dead possums! I can’t stand it now.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, Our Devil, you used to love that smell and loved us calling you Our Main Male Skunkster.

DEVIL: [pacing] I now hate the smells of dead fish, diapers, pine trees, cat urine and dog hair and even perfumes.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: When we return we can bomb Your Office with moth balls but you told us you were allergic to them too.

DEVIL: [pacing] I need the smells of roses, coffee, vanilla and even chocolate.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, you could try taking a bubble bathe, Our Devil, to smell sweet.

DEVIL: [pacing] It’s those biohazard problems. I see water bugs and spiders now. Where are they? Do you see them?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, you might be having an olfactory hallucination, Our Devil. We don’t see them anywhere.

DEVIL: [rubs his eyes] Now I am okay.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Last year at the Annual Lantern Parade, Our Devil, you reacted negatively to a modern Victorian woman who walked by with a hair permanent and you reacted very badly to the chemicals they used. Do you remember?

DEVIL: [pacing] Yes, yes and I can’t stand the smell of horse manure anymore.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, we read that cinnamon can take that scent away.

DEVIL: [pacing] These smells are still very pungent and offensive but now I smell a sweet burning sensation.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We smell gasoline now too.

DEVIL: [pacing] Do I now smell soot and smoke? Is there a fire nearby?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Soon we will be using fertilizers and pesticides in the Limbolands to grow our economic system.

DEVIL: [pacing] I feel itchy with both cat and dog hair.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We read that in Amerika there are 85 million dogs and 100 million cats with 320 million people as of 2014.

DEVIL: [pacing] I hope those fertilizers and pesticides aren’t carcinogenic.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: E. coli Bacteris is a big problem on earth, Our Devil, and we hope it won’t be one soon after we conquer the Limbolands and use these fertilizers and pesticides.

DEVIL: [stops pacing] Wow, stop! I can smell good again!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We think the Big Dog has been playing tricks on you, Our Devil, making a fool of you.

DEVIL: [pacing] When I conquer the Limboland Arenas I will become the ‘kinder and gentler’ Ruler.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Dictatorship of the proletariat will be replaced by the ruthless totalitarian dictatorship of the Devil.

DEVIL: [pacing] We can’t permit any do-good reformers muck up our new system.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We’ll incarcerate the reformers in gigantic tented detention camps.

DEVIL: [pacing] The People’s choice is Our Devil or Barbarism.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We must create a multi-racial and multi-ethnic Workers Party like the Nazis and Communists supporting in theory the People.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must use those words ‘hope and change’ like Bill Clinton and Obama.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Democracy and Dictatorship must go hand in hand.

DEVIL: [pacing] We will support in our new political theory the true liberation of women and gender equality, equality for all proletariat and peasantry classes, equality for all immigrants, and freedom of the working class from exploitation under celestial theological and priestly rule.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We must oppose western capitalism and communism at the same time.

DEVIL: [pacing] When I become the Limboland Emperor we will tell our citizens we represent all the people and political democracy, personal freedom and total equality but…

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [laughing] But the Devil’s Palace will be privately called the Emperor’s Palace of Outright Lies.

DEVIL: [pacing] Let’s ‘blow this popsicle stand’ as I used to say in the Biblical Garden of Eden to the ancient snake playing me.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing badly] The Inferno, united, will never be defeated. The Inferno, united, will never be defeated.

DEVIL: [pacing] I like that little lyrical ditty. Where did you learn that from?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing badly] That slithering female snake who was impersonating you, Our Devil. We thought she was Lilith, but then again, we don’t really know.

DEVIL: [starts sobbing] Lilith! When I hear the name Lilith I think of revenge and total evilness and destroying her.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [whispering] We wish you would have.

DEVIL: [crying openly] I remember you Three Princes used to sing that one song: ‘We’re friends till the end and this is the beginning.’ I loved that and got many tears. Who really wrote that?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [stop singing] That was from Joey Giuseppe and Filippo, the best buddies in medieval Italia who at age 13 in some convent wine cellar outside Napoli sang it after drinking wine secretly.

SCENE 46

CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS

ON WORLD BELOW

ON THE WAY TO CAFÉ GRAECO-ROMAN

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: Some of the celestial superstars of our Celestial Kingdom here are called the DIVINE CHORUS and PEANUT GALLERY. Oops, and we forgot the CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

DIVINE CHORUS: We are considered the Conservative & Reactionary souls and consciences of Mankind representing the rational Humanities…

PEANUT GALLERY: We are the Liberal & Radical souls and consciences of Mankind representing the rational Humanities…

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS: We trust no one here including ourselves.

DIVINE CHORUS: The world below is a real crazy place yet.

PEANUT GALLERY: We love the craziness and insanity of the world.

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS: We must leave because everyone is listening to our conversation. [departs]

DIVINE CHORUS: [sarcastic] Sometimes it does appear that members of the Peanut Gallery are literally addicted to crack cocaine because their brains are so cracked with crackpot Liberal ideas.

PEANUT GALLERY: [saracastic] Just wait until the modern Western tech companies become legal and permitted here when the Divine Chorus will stumble and fumble with typing and trying to understand modern technology and computers.

DIVINE CHORUS: We could eat some Japanese sushi but the Kingdom is strictly vegetarian.

PEANUT GALLERY: We’ll take some yummy hummus, granola bars, tofu, oatmeal, avocados, carrots, skim milk, yogurt, crackers, ice cream, chocolate chip cookies and…

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: "By the literary way, the Devil and his Three Crown Princes and his coterie of evil doers have infiltrated the Celestial Kingdom during the Annual Lantern Parade and are operating, at this time as it appears, as Garcons. Stay tune for any changes and interruptions literary."

DEVIL: [disguised aside as garcon] I hate the Divine Chorus seeing them as sexually and morally uptight stooges of the Big Dog and loath the Peanut Gallery who I see as proletarian bimbos enslaved to Karl Marx and those silly socialist theories and philosophy of economc and social democracy.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [disguised also aside as garcons] We must monitor them both and try to co-opt the Conspiracy Theorists with giving them fake information all the time to cause havoc and dissent among everyone here.

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: Nine souls from many different cultures are mumbling about writing their first novel while walking by to the Café Graeco-Roman.

FRENCH EXISTENTIALIST MUMBLING: [walking by] Political corruption, Chinese State secrets, Russian expansionism, Amerikan neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism all make an ugly tapestry of absurdity and human despair.

JAMAICAN SUGAR CANE WORKER MUMBLING: [walking by] I want to write a novel about a brave Jamaician feminist who gets pregnant but her boyfriend dies suddenly from an overdose and she discovers that he had AIDS and transmits AIDS to her son.

YOUNG AMERIKAN IVY LEAGUER MUMBLING: [walking by] I want to write the Great American Novel about a black Ferrari Spider, two sexy California beach girls, DNA samples, a few political insiders, a squash court, marlin fishing, a Philadelphia fox hunt and…

SYRIAN REFUGEE WRITER MUMBLING: [walking by] I want to write a novel about suicide bombers, refugees drowning, Shiite clerics, religious martyrs, the Quran, Ramadan feast, Muslim democracy emerging and how these topics reflect the Syrians living now in the West among religious prejudice and fears of terrorism and…

CHINESE COMMUNIST CADRE: [walking by] I want to write a political novel about vampires, Amerikan imperialism, the Cold War still alive, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, state contract bribes, political asylum, Japanese samurai revenge and…

RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTIONARY: [walking by] I want to write a novel using ballet dancers and modern Soviet artists as spies, smashing bourgeois class society and atheistic existentialists battling the Russian Orthodox Church before it’s closed for good.

ISRAELI COMEDIAN MUMBLING: [walking by] I want to write a hilarious comical satirical novel about a Dodo Bird meeting a Moslem Donkey in the desert and fall in love resulting in getting married without none of the Animal Tribes knowing the politics nor religion of their respective tribes.

AUSSIE HUNTER MUMBLING: [walking by] I want to write a novel about Beer being the National Religion of the white Aussies and use the subjects of an Import and export business of crocodile meat, Aussie kangaroos, witchetty grubs and other topics as a tapestry to weave its essence.

FIJIAN SHAMAN: [walking by] I want to write a novel about a Fijian Shaman adjusting to a celestial world by eating and drinking some homemade wine, a pizza, French fries and a Germanic beer here.

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 47

THE THREE WISE MONKEYS SAY; "SEE NO

EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL."

THE DEVIL SAYETH; SEE NO GOODNESS, HEAR NO GOODNESS, AND SPEAK NO GOODNESS.

DEVIL: [pacing] I love the Three Wise Monkeys as long as they work for me.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing] We love a Sentimental Journey.

DEVIL: [pacing] Stop singing!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: As Our Devil sayeth; ‘See no goodness, hear no goodness, and speak no goodness.’ Hubba hubba!

DEVIL: [pacing] I want you three to investigate the existence of the Hope Diamond which according to certain rumors is here.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We’ll disguise ourselves as workers for the Celestial Government Service and infiltrate the Limboland Arena Underworld leaders to discover that, Our Devil.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must be pragmatists.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We love the cloak-and-dagger dime detective image getting the seductive mistress then...

DEVIL: [pacing] Stop it again! We must be careful not being charged with police torture when we interrogate our defiant witnesses.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing] We want to go on a long sentimental journey.

DEVIL: [pacing] Sentimental journey! I’ll give you a sentimental journey.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: But, Our Devil, we are practicing our theatrical talents for Our Conquest of the Limboland Arenas.

DEVIL: [stops pacing] Alright! I could agree to a certain degree on a sentimental level but there are many degrees in life of sentimentality including in My Inferno. Let’s move on.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We must haunt the peasantry and proletariat to make them hate the Celestial Kingdom and their rulers.

DEVIL: [pacing] Since 95% of the souls in the Limboland Arenas live in the rural areas we must burn their farms and huts, poison their livestock and water system and disrupt their eating so badly that it would force them to emigrate to the city centers so we can corral them and control them better.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Yes, we are worried like as to what happened in the ancient Roman Empire when the unslaved peasantry were forced to the city to Rome when the large plantations took them over with the threat of Starvation as here they would be forced to migrate to our Limboland cities where we can dehumanize them easier under our control but then we must feed, cloth and house them too.

DEVIL: [pacing] The process will be Propaganda, Sabotage, Division, Conquest, Reconciliation then Unity.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing] Propaganda, Sabotage, Division, Conquest, Reconciliation then Unity, yeh, yah, yeh!

DEVIL: [rubbing fingers together] Hey, Purgywood Film stars, we’ll make some Big Dough or Scratch out of this new economic system next year when we conquer the Limboland Arenas.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [singing & dancing] We got rhythm…

DEVIL: [pacing] Stop it, you worthless ne’er-do-wells.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, Boss, we were practicing our song for the Purgywood or Limbowood Follies next month.

DEVIL: [pacing] I love drinking hard liquor but it must be before noon like Italian cappuccino.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "A new play we are writing, Our Devil, called the Heart of the Human Jungle staring King Kong as the star."

DEVIL: [pacing] Amerikan Prez FDR pushed the Four Freedoms of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I must come up with something like that when I become Conqueror of the Limboland Arenas.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [reading article] This article says that one should compliment a beautiful woman for her intelligence and an average sexy woman for her intelligence is you want to take her to bed.

DEVIL: [pacing] My authoritarian government must use very sophisticated advertising and propaganda methods and techniques to convince souls we work for them and not us.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We can milk all the suckers who buy into our new system when we promise them the after-world.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must beware of the possible civil wars which could emerge after we conquer the Limboland Arenas.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil, it’s all about power. We should expect endemic disorder, political polarization, instability, insecurity, chaos and ensuing violence in the Limboland Arenas because the people will demand freedom.

DEVIL: [pacing] But at the same time we must promote ourselves as the saviors for political and economic security and welfare to keep the souls there in the Limboland Arenas.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: History is written by the winners and we are the winners.

DEVIL: [pacing] "One of these Communists or Progressives or Liberals just finished a Art Mural in Amerika called Amerikan Fascism: Can It Happen Here?"

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We love the smell of political death if we are victorious, that is.

DEVIL: [pacing] All you threee knuckleheads want to do is chase fast women, ride fast horses and fast cars.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Ah, we’ll take three Martinis now, dry.

DEVIL: [pacing] Stop it now! You psychopathic personalities can have them later at the Café Graeco-Roman.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We are thinking of the Second Coming of the Son of Man or the Anti-Christ but when?

DEVIL: [pacing] I see a lot of females are here in the Purgatorio.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Yes, grandmothers and great grandmothers are the primary caregivers for many of the grandchildren on earth and even for the elderly relatives who are still very tired.

DEVIL: [pacing] These Limboland leaders picked the most unattractive barren bleak and inaccessible arenas to develop their Areans which did motivate any outsiders never to venture there in such a ‘hostile human environment.’

THREE CROWN PRINCES: It’s like the Jewish people or even the modern Mormons in American Utah.

DEVIL: [pacing] To those who we are going to conquer their choice is extermination, subjugation being true assimilation into our New Infernal World.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "We are trying to read the Judaic and Christian Bible and its Book of Job and Goethe’s Faust to be motivated, Our Devil."

DEVIL: [pacing] I want to be the star of any production you cinematic and theatrical thugs do!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "Oh, we could call you the Infernal Great King Kong making it an artistic surreal operatic ballet-laced satirical movie."

DEVIL: [pacing] I think that is pure Dadaistic-type stupidity and politically I don’t want to put a bandage on a cancerous patient solving any disease.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Adaptation! We’re concerned also, Our Scientific Genius Devil, about the Global Warming issues which probably effected the recent opening of the Northwest Passage being able to maneuver during the summer without ice stopping them.

SCENE 47

SUB ROSA

BEHIND THE SCENES

PURGYWOOD TRYING TO ORGANIZE

SHOUTS: Cut! Cut!

All the actors and actresses continue as if nothing is heard.

DANISH PRINCE HAMLET: [weeping & acting hysterically] "I had the worst nightmare last night that I was dueling with my Conscience and my father’s Ghost both and after they both knocked me down and took my sword they was ready to stab me with my own sword while my love Ophelia is laughing hysterically in my face at my impending assassination and the soliders and officers were gambling with dice on the floor as to when I was going to perish and my mother Queen Gertrude was yelling that I deserved to die and all the women that I had laid in bed with was the collective Angry Female Chorus screaming for my immediate death and the Courtiers were drunk with glee as to my demise and Horatio was contemplating his not my mortality and the Court Jesters were making jokes about ME dying and then I awoken perspiring distraughtly and in a pool of sweat lying on the floor off my bed chamber knowing that this was a nightmare! [angry now] I have no friends but ME! I should hate them all! Woe is me!"

CINEMATOGRAPHIC CHORUS: [swaying] Woe is Hamlet yet even here!

COURT JESTER: [spits] At least he did not vanquish you, Hamster!

STONEHENGE WITCH: [brewing in cauldron] It’s the olde shell game.

JUGGLERS: [juggling three oranges] One, two, buckle my shoe…

NEW SUPERSTAR SEX SYMBOL MOVIE STAR: [singing] I, the Cinderella of the screen, the Viking Princess, the Roman Vestal Virgin, will trump the Hamlet of olde, shall I save his virtue if he has any left…Oops, I forgot my lines!…

ACTOR PLAYING CLARK GABLE: [drunken stupor] Frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a… [falls down from drinking]

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "Behind these thick velvet-coloured Stage Curtains unseen by the observers on a wooden floor resembling the Elizabethan theatre Modern theatrical and operatic Souls are trying to outdo and outwit their ancient Athenian Greek playwrights, the ancient Hebrew and Christian moralists and Elizabethan playwrights like Shakespeare and Marlowe by creating a new type of play and opera and movie for the Celestial Audience but there is dissension in the playhouse behind the monstrously guarded Curtain. The unknown New Producer or Secret Reclusive Boss has secretly recruited playwrights, librettists, novelists and musical composers to create the greatest theatrical bombshell in Celestial history combining all the arts and music. Some thespians are calling this theatrical section Purgywood as in Purgatorio after Hollywood."

#1NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [screams] Cut! Cut!

PUBLICITY AGENT: [whispers] Maestro, we must create something magnificent and unique before the Amerikan Orson Welles, the German Fritz Lang and the Italian Federico Fellini return from the Inferno. Time is running out!

LITTLE GIRL: [continues acting on a long table alone] The meeting of this theatrical Board of Direktors will now come to order but please drop off the cookies and milk first and don’t forget the vodka in a separate brown bag! I can’t show my parents I’m drinking alcohol!

ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: [calmly] Honey, you can stop now. The audition has stopped until we kinda sort out the mess we are in. Thank you so much.

LITTLE GIRL: Can I have some of that happy juice, please, please, please?

ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: [sternly] No, you can not. You are not old enough yet. You think you are Shirley Temple?

#2NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [angry & screams again] "I know! I know! Who let Clark Gable and Scarlet get in on the first scene without my permission? And the NEW FEMALE MOVIE STAR forgot her lines! Where is she? Incredible! I should never have done this!"

FRENCH THEATRICAL DIREKTOR: [exasperated] Mon Dieu! This is simply impossible!

PURGYWOOD TALENT AGENT: Boss, I guess we need new actors and a new movie script too…

#3NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [screams] Where are my playwrights and librettists and novelists and musical composers? I want some film criticism here and a new Production!

ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: I’ll get them! I’ll get them!

FAIRYLAND GODMOTHER ACTRESS: I think we can reverse engineer this production but…

IRISH VAGABOND POET: I am very troubled and tortured and tormented mentally as to what to do here now.

FEMALE WARDROBE STYLIST: I think you ought to permit the females here to get together and go into the dressing room and pick out some crazy outfits and rewrite the whole thing without the help from the males since males look at the world differently than females.

FEMALE SCOTTISH ILLUSTRATOR: I could do some macabre illustrations pushing the celestial moralistic envelope.

#4NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [annoyed] Females, do your thing when we get a break and get to me with a new plan. You ladies tell me what you think so we can move forward quickly right after the Annual Lantern Parade.

TEUTONIC LIBRETTIST: Direktor, the Hamlet introduction does not make any sense with our theme of the Sexual Adventures of a white modern bourgeois blonde Scandinavian Princess captured in the Limboland and kidnapped into the Inferno by the Devilish Warriors. The whole production is just too bizarre for most of our moralistic and theologically pure Celestial Audience and earthly readers to fathom.

BOHEMIAN PLAYWRIGHT: "We must continue to work on a revolutionary theatrical Anti-Play to mesmerize the Celestial Audience within the framework of all their cultures and civilizations."

FRENCH DADAIST WRITER: With absolutely no plot whatsoever.

EUGENE O’NEILL AGENT: You will never write an opera and play or movie where you will never get any moralistic or theological opposition to it from the many publics. Face those facts on earth and here.

SALVADORE DALI AGENT: You should make the NEW SUPERSTAR SEX SYMBOL MOVIE STAR a psychopathic hedonistic selfish sexqueen, I think.

ETA HOFFMAN: [humming] Myths! We could incorporate the Grim Reaper and voodoo drummers with the modern French Moulin Rouge, sleazy can-can dancers, drag queens, Venetian courtesans, a surrealistic Victorian, Orwellian aspects, Amerikan square dancing, Amerikan burlesque, Dadaist fashion aesthetic, Amerikan pin-up models, Hong Kong street walkers, British libertarians, Russian nihilists, existentialists etc. etc. into one production but it will need more time to write it and practice it and perform it…

BOLLYWOOD HINDOO THEATRICAL SCRIPT WRITER: The rich in any society are corrupt and evil and must be satirized except the Brahmins in India…

RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK: They all must be overthrown.

NAMIDIAN NOVELIST: "We could do a grotesque and creative parody on human culture throughout the ages from Neanderthal to modern mankind making the original homo sapiens from black Afrika the real heroes and…"

FRENCH GRAND OPERA TENOR: We must still make this production opulent and grandiose worthy of the multiple cross-cultural talents here.

JAPANESE KABUKI DANCER: Do not forget the Asian and Eastern way of living and thinking.

PURGYWOOD AGENT: [whispers] "Psst! We might as well do a quick and easy Hollywood B quality film noir gangster movie making it a satire and comedy that all the celestial audience would laugh at but use double entendres."

#5NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [still annoyed] Quick and easy! Quick and easy! Throw more ideas at me!

CZECH NOVELIST: We could write a play combining again Kafkaesque existentialism, Spanish surrealism and French Dadaist art…but what’s the theme?

JACQUES OFFENBACH AGENT: If we need a theme? We like anarchy, surprise, absurdity, subterranean psychology, human resistance to conventions and…

ITALIAN ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: [upset but upbeat] Bella! We need a unique cosmic chiaroscuro approach worthy of the Italian Renaissance combined with a late 19th century Italian Macchiaioli artistic world view and modern 20th and 21st century Italian futurism themes.

#6NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [still annoyed] Finally it talks.

NEW SUPERSTAR SEX SYMBOL MOVIE STAR: [upset too] Rats! Sorry about forgetting my lines, Herr Direktor. [filing nails] I am dreadfully haunted by a profound feeling of incipient sin and guilt yet…but I am relieved that Orson Welles nor Fritz Lang are not here. Actually I would like dill pickles better than sweet pickles for some strange reason. I shall ask my therapist tomorrow about that!

OPERATIC UNDERSTUDY: [conniving] My dear, you might be pregnant. I’ll help you again with those lines. [privately] And if she is pregnant I will be the new star.

BELGIAN NOVELIST: Stop! We could have the actress on a rage in the Inferno after she gets captured like St Joan of Arc and helps defeat the Devil in the Inferno.

SPANISH PLAYWRIGHT: Hey, witch on steroids! We could rewrite the play and libretto where the Devil should abduct and abuse her then accuse her of being purposely masochistically captured to be subjected to the sexual slavery of the Devilish Infernal Warriors like the medieval Vikings…

All is quiet.

#7NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [thinking our loud] Hmm! Too much sex and psychoanalysis here in the Kingdom? But it might work if we disguise it properly with nuances. Playwrights, librettists, novelists give me a scene. Hurry, hurry, hurry! [raising voice] And don’t tell the ancient Greek playwrights or Shakespearean writers or modern Hollywood directors what we are doing!

CINEMATOGRAPHIC CHORUS: [singing] We are all doomed to an insignificant existential melodramatic conclusion in life after death here.

GERMANIC PRODUCER: [smoking cig nervously] Bitte! I don’t know! I don’t know! I guess we should bring back the Olde Crew.

CINEMATOGRAPHIC CHORUS: [singing] We need real talented and creative directors and actors here not political nor theological hacks for the Wise Prophets and Celestial Leadership here.

ARGENTINE TALENT SCOUT: We need world class entertainment here like on earth…

ITALIAN MOVIE SET ARCHITECT: Buono! I advise us should first build a 2,000,000-seat Latin Amerikan futbol and soccer stadium; a 1,000,000-seat European sports and futbol arena; a 750,000-seat British type theatre for staging operas and Shakespearean plays; a 500,000-seat Germanic Wagnerian musique and operatic club Festspielhaus Bayreuth style theatre; a 250,000-seat Canadian hockey stadium; a 200,000-seat indoor theatre to showcase amateur and youth theatrical production and a 1,000-screen and 100,000-seat Cinema based on the Sydney Australia model but how can we do that here?

LOS ANGELES ARCHITECT: [lightens up] With restaurants, bars, taverns, night clubs, bowling alleys, specialty shoppes, Art Museums, Art Galleries, a Wax Museum, gold courses, coffee and donut shoppes amidst a Southern California physical environment. We can do it here!

AMERIKAN POLITIKAL CONSULTANT: [smoking cig nervously] Hmm, what do you think, CEO boss? Sports teams and Movies?

#8NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: What do you think, moneybags?

THE RECLUSIVE SECRET BOSS is quiet.

LIBYAN ENTERTAINMENT RECRUITER: We must be Celestial visionaries.

LONDON TIMES EDITOR: [whispers] What’s the next scoop, Libyan man?

THE RECLUSIVE SECRET BOSS: [quietly] "I want to build a permanent gigantic Convention Center here rivaling the Great Crystal Palace Exhibition of Queen Victoria’s London’s Hyde Park in 1851 known by some as the first World’s Faire to showcase all of man’s artistic achievements not just a sports stadium and then rebuild the Pyramids like Los Vegas and…"

SOUTH AFRIKAN PUBLICITY AGENT: This will be the first Celestial World’s Faire.

HEBREW MINORITY PARTNER: [playing with calculator] Building sets, production, training, distribution, exhibition are all phases needing much people and on earth monies but here we need people and more people and…

DADAIST WRITER: Let’s start again with the theatrical production! We need a first theatrical play performance of which I recommend bringing in the German playwright Bertolt Brecht and French artist Marcel Duchamp and Spaniard Pablo Picasso to help us satirize the theatre, intellectuals, Marxists, anarchists, nihilists, existentialists, aristocrats, modern artists, politicians, and the modern world in all its stupidities and contradictions.

RUSSIAN NIHILIST BALLET STAR: Don’t let the capitalists come in! They’ll dominate everything from production to the wine and cheese parties.

BOHEMIAN POET: We need street poets, mimes, court jesters, clowns, jugglers and…

LONDON EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: I think we must develop a brochure summarizing our programme using catchy summaries and cartoons…

CINEMATOGRAPHIC CHORUS: [singing] Will this first so-called satirical play enthrall and inflame us in cinematographic chaos???

#9NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: I’m exhausted too! Let’s have a few drinks before we continue brainstorming. Assistant, announce it!

ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: [yells] Everyone take 60; we’re going to re-organize the entire production but need some drinks and eats and be back in 60 with some new ideas!

MADAGASCAR GARCON: [arrives] I dropped some drinks off for you including Italian espresso, British tea and Amerikan coffee. Any special drinks?

#10NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: Set us up with some strong Russian vodka, Italian grappa wine, an Israeli Arak and Japanese saki…

FRENCH ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: I’ll need another strong French Napoleon Brandy before we start again…

ITALIAN MOVIE SET ARCHITECT: A double espresso with some anisette.

SOUTH AFRIKAN PUBLICITY AGENT: I could drink a cheap Bulgarian wine.

DADAIST WRITER: And some strong Amerikan bootleg whiskey.

NAMIDIAN NOVELIST: Should our satire be humorous or biting intellectual?

HEBREW ACCOUNTANT: We must simplify this production to make it understood by the majority of the Celestial Citizens here.

MARK TWAIN AGENT: Is reality really as complex as we think or intellectualize? I don’t think so.

ALASKAN FISHERMAN: I caught a fish this big! No, that’s too lame.

BIBLICAL JEW: We are our brother’s keeper! Too cliché too!

THE RECLUSIVE SECRET BOSS: [quietly, arrogantly & slowly] As a former wildcatter I learned that I won’t do nothing unless I am in kontrol and I can make some monies.

CINEMATOGRAPHIC CHORUS: [singing] The Secret Boss wants power!

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: The eminent VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST and SWISS PSYCHOANALYST are hearing the entire production from seats nearby in the audience but can’t see behind the curtain.

VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST: [cigar smoking] What are these cinematographic thespians trying to do here, I ask?

SWISS PSYCHOANALYST: [cigarette smoking] I don’t know either but I would love to know soon too. Shakespeare would say that the cartoonists and Court Jesters would have a field day with them!

VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST: [cigar smoking] Some think that the unknown New Producer or Reclusive Secret Boss is really Orson Welles masquerading as a capitalist but we can’t confirm that yet.

SWISS PSYCHOANALYST: [cigarette smoking] Orson playing two souls?

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: A Black Amerikan Jazz Musician playing with his saxophone and a Black Amerikan down-and-out singer are performing alone unknowingly behind the curtain scene while others are still chatting about what has just happened here.

BLACK JAZZ MUSICIAN: [licking horn of saxophone] "Let’s do Corruption, brother, while they wait. Now!"

BLACK AMERIKAN SINGER: [off key to self] I still just ain’t got no monies no more; I ain’t got no future no more; I ain’t got no soul no more; I still ain’t got no assets no more; I been eating that junk fast food and it’s killing me; I still been breathing the aire and it’s killing me and my brothers and sisters too; I always vote and it don’t make no difference; I go to school and am still mis-educated; I went to college and became higher more mis-educated; They freed the slaves but we’re still slaves to the system; My People are still enslaved here; I feel like I’m still working the chain gang in the deep South; We used to have a strong middle class but not no more; I know that too many of my people are addicted to alcohol and drugs and tobacco and sex; I know the people want to go Left but the system wants them to go Right; It’s very hard living in Amerika as a black brother; Why are people still so poor and so politically alienated?; You know, I still got a lot of rage hidden in my heart…

BLACK JAZZ MUSICIAN: [taking breather] Bee-bop, de dee-bop, daddyo, swing it again Sam.

BLACK AMERIKAN SINGER: [crooning & crying off key to self] We are ‘always outnumbered’; They say the black man must stand up for himself; Sometimes all I want to do is go fishin’ and hum those tunes and eat them fish fries and drink that homemade moonshine at night and kiss my girl and start all over again the same thing tomorrow; I miss my olde horse more than my woman; A wise olde black man who was a slave told me once while he was reminiscing about his rough life with his harmonica besides him that we still live in an oligarchy ruled by the rich selfish white folks and their corporations; I do love women but they complicate my truly selfish life; I want to be a detective rather than a writer; We all know that Pollution is stealing our soul which is the Grand Theft that is killing the earth and nature and us too but we do nothing about it; We know we got a savage form of crony capitalism in the USA and a state socialism for the rich not the poor; Why am I a disloyal Amerikan if I question the economic system not serving the real needs of my people?…

FRENCH ASSISTANT DIREKTOR: [looking at script] Mon Dieu! I like what I am hearing from the Jazz singer. I don’t see it in the script though!

#10NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [excited] It ain’t in the script! It’s unscripted, impromptu, spontaneous, improv! I love it! I love it! He’s singing it from his heart. We gotta get it written down now and use it as the beginning of the new play.

SPECIAL ASSISTANT: We need a new title, too.

LIBRETTIST: Corruption! Korruption! Moral corruption stinks to low earth.

EASTERN BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHER: [walks by] You should learn how to think, not what to think.

#11NEW CELESTIAL MOVIE DIREKTOR: [excited] Yes, we need tough guys, melodrama, vigilantes, sexy dames, rogue cops, corrupt cops, gangsters, the international drug trade…

ACTOR ORSON WELLES: [loudly] Ladies and gentlemen of this celestial world, we interrupt this programme of Jazz Musique to give you some grave and disturbing news from the Celestial Interplanetary Radio Programme. At 45 minutes before 11, Eastern time tonight, Professor Einstein of the Celestial Interplanetary Observatory reports witnessing a gigantic unprecedented Flash explosion of nuclear type blasts risen in the skies outside the planet Mars….No, it was the planet…More from your sponsor now…

PERSONAL ASSISTANT: [whispers] OW…this did not really happen and you must remember what you did in 1938 in the USA…You will start a massive Panic of unprecedented proportions here that might get you confined to the Limboland Arenas forever…

NEW ACTOR JUMPS UP: [walking like dead zombie] I am victimized by being in a spell, hex, hoax, wicked, magic, sorcery, voodoo, black magic, irrational fears, superstition, evilness, magic of the…

FINANCE DIRECTOR: It’s the magic of the olde buck that only counts.

DIRECTOR: Cut it. You need more depth and better grammar, zombie man.

MOVIE WRITER: Boss, we gotta have man-eating plants and large crabs to terrorize the people. The Devil’s Infernal world has a disturbing beauty to it in a way and we must film there when the time comes.

PUBLICITY DIRECTOR: We should do it in the depths of the Inferno to make it look real as dangerous as it sounds.

CELESTIAL NEWS POLITIKAL EDITOR: [walking by] Tell me off the record what’s happening with the Governor. What’s his campaign platform for the political office at the beginning of the year?

AMERIKAN POLITICAL HANDLER: [walking by] Unofficially and between us only my candidate for the Celestial position of President tells me he wants to run independently because he places the public good above any party loyalty.

CINEMATOGRAPHIC CHORUS: [singing] Oops, the book has started again.

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 48

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING THE CELESTIAL

KINGDOM—THE SPECTRE OF THE DEVIL’S

GROSS VICIOUSNESS AND BARBARITY.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [aside to themselves] Our Devil is still the greatest. He is the most powerful Brobdingnagian example of all not one severe personality disorders. A Messianic complex personified for his Evilness the Devil still possesses a pompous and condescending narcissistic personality who desires excessive attention all the time and an extreme sense of self-importance, possesses fantasies of having unlimited personal power, lacks any human empathy and requires all the time his workers have to give him sycophancy and excessive admiration. [pause] That’s Our Devil and we must learn to live with him.

DEVIL: [pacing] The one thing I learned from that new POTUS Amer-Prez Trumpster is that from now on I am going to be totally Unpredictable. Most of the time I am going to be so nice and so celestial forgiving people for their personal and ideological and theological transgressions that the Celestial Kingdom will have no idea what I’m really going to do.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We love it, Emperor, we mean Prez Devil.

DEVIL: [pacing] "The Chinese have a saying which says; ‘A grain of rice to a starving man is better than a bowl of rice the next day.’

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We want to be Spanish or Mexican matadors.

DEVIL: [pacing] Watch out because we all have blind spots.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Tequila without the worms.

DEVIL: [pacing] Under the new system next year the only language we need to learn is the language of money.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Who said a man kills the thing he loves? Oscar Wilde?

DEVIL: [pacing] In the Ballad of Reading Gaol, I think.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [dancing] We love those ribald ballads, we do.

DEVIL: [pacing] Stop it! We need to use special drugs to keep our citizens and particularly the young teenagers in My New Conquered Limboland Arenas drugged up so bad that they don’t cause any political and criminal trouble for us.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: When modernity comes from the directive of the Big Dog where he will start to permit electricity and computers and the Internet and eventually cell phones etc. in the Limboland Arenas as well as in the Celestial Kingdom we are very concerned that scientific research on earth appears to suggest that these cell phones or digital technology release dopamine, a chemical which is highly addictive causing unsocial behavior like drinking and smoking and gambling. For example, these kids are at home during the evening in their own bedrooms being addicted to playing these video and computer games all night.

DEVIL: [pacing] Hmm, we must be able to use this Internet and Computer Addiction to our advantage. So the kids spend time with themselves playing computer and video games into the wee hours of the night instead of sleeping and during the daytime they doze off rather than socializing with their friends which interferes with them developing a productive social personality?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We think so based on the research.

DEVIL: [pacing] "At the same time we must be able to create a public relations and newspaper system here of Post-Truth but tell nobody about it."

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We’ll tell the citizens this is the new Limboland Democratic System of Patriotism.

DEVIL: [pacing] Our official public tone should be positive not negative, optimistic and not pessimistic.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil, remember that you must decide soon who your New Limboland Arena Cabinet members will be.

DEVIL: [pacing] "Being very spiteful as I am we’ll immediately issue gag orders on all bureaucrats to shut up and not issue any public statements without permission from my Cabinet Heads."

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Some people have been saying that the New POTUS Amerikan Prez Trump is the worst ‘sore winner’ rather than a ‘sore loser.’

DEVIL: [pacing] We must publicly denounce all forms of torture but practice our enhanced form of torture be it real torture or waterboarding secretly in the Infernal prisons.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We love that approach. We will also use wiretapping and electronic spying too when the new electronic world arrives in the Limboland but…

DEVIL: [pacing] But we must establish Nazi and Communist type Courts to sign and approve all wiretapping and electronic spying making it official.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We’ll bring new meaning into the words ‘official lying.’

DEVIL: [laugh] There are lies, damned lies and court-approved electronic spying!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We feel, Our Devil, that publicly when you become Emperor of the Limboland Arena you would never publicly mock nor condescend nor show any authoritarian or undemocratic behavior at all.

DEVIL: [pacing] But I would never practice what I preach publicly being the greatest hypocrite in the universe, I was and and am now and always will be. Ha ha!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "We must have a new satirical and biting daily news magazine criticizing the Celestial Kingdom and the Big Dog calling it The Celestial Fleas of the Big Dog."

DEVIL: [laughs] "I like that. Work on expanding that notion. The Celestial Fleas of the Big Dog."

THREE CROWN PRINCES: The Christian Jesus’ royal birth in that stable at Bethlehem, the Buddha’s enlightenment under that Bodhi tree and St Paul having his vision on the Road to Damascus is nonsense.

SCENE 48

STAGE CURTAIN

RISES

JOURNALIST & ZARATHUSTRA ENTER VERY FATIGUED

ANGELIC NARRATORS VEZY & SARA: The modern Italo-American Journalist known as Adam the First Man and the ancient esteemed Prophet Zarathustra are discussing some things.

ZARATHUSTRA: We’re still in this tunnel connecting the Inferno to the Kingdom.

JOURNALIST: [totally fatigued] What an unforgettable experience in the Inferno and Limboland that no one would ever believe me.

ZARATHUSTRA: Adam, would do you think of the Inferno and Limboland?

JOURNALIST: [exhausted] The Inferno was incredibly and indescribably pure diabolical and demonic barbarism and wickedness of course with the worst human exploitation of slavery and torture, every kind of rampant crimes, the worst human sins and foibles, forced prostitution, widespread epidemic diseases, ecological disasters, extremes of heat and cold, mental manipulation, psychological thralldom, horrible chain gangs, with the worst of Biblical conflicts being played everywhere. A real human nightmare in action!

ZARATHUSTRA: And the Limboland Arenas?

JOURNALIST: [shakes head] But most interestingly the various Limboland Arenas had its pauperism and power brokers and plunderers consisting of warring tribal ethnic enclaves, all authoritarian and non- or anti-democratic, competing with each other for dominance, power and exploitation using the residents with impunity and behind the scenes making diplomatic swindles to manipulate every soul and Limboland Arena power elite members with blatant conflicts between leaders and followers throughout history from the pre-historic Limboland Arenas to…

ZARATHUSTRA: "Competing with each other just