Thirtieth Scene
(Finally
Virgil and Dante get in to The first Ante Hell. The guests are damned to fall
suddenly asleep while playing; so they can never take rest. As a matter of fact
in the Ante Hell it’s is always day
time, the lights are on all the time
and the night never comes.)
Virgil and Dante are sitting
in a café. Some kind of music is on. The café is quite crowded; in the middle
of the scene there is an upper leveled table where a couple is staying in a bed
waiting for someone to make love with; two very dressy men are discussing some
important business; two other men are
playing dice and four more are playing
cards; other people are smoking and drinking;
they seem all to be enjoying themselves. The two poets are
sitting at a table waiting for the waitress to come for their order.
First man (getting
close to Virgil and Dante, with a low voice)
-
Chocolate, speed, coke, brown sugar, mushrooms! Do you want any? Everything
is cheap and first quality!!!
Dante (to Virgil)
-
Master, How do they cook mushrooms in this café? Are them tasteful and safe?
Virgil (smiling to Dante but sending away the man and calling thereafter the waitress with a lift arm)
- No, thanks, man! We don't need
any!!!
Waitress (very nice, possibly topless, anyway with a
lascivious smile and a note book in the hand)
- Something from the kitchen,
please?
Virgil
- We would like two pizzas,
please!!! (to Dante) Is it all right also for you a pizza, my son?
Dante
- Oh, yes ! It is!! Can mine can be
served with onions and tuna or you just serve them with mushrooms??
Waitress (always
nicely)
- Our Chef makes a very special tuna
and onions pizza, if you like it!!!
Virgil
- OK! And just a Napoli for me will
be all right, please!!!
Waitress (writing
down the note)
- What about the drinks?
Virgil
- Two pints of lager, please!!! Is
that all right for you my son?
Dante
- Oh yes, master!!! That will be all
right also for me!!!
Waitress (after
writing and before leaving)
- OK! Ah, the couple in the bed told
me that if you can join them, it will be great!!! I can join myself if you
don't mind!!!
Virgil (smiling
too)
- No, thanks, my darling! Tell them
we came just for a quick pizza! We are in a rush, you know?
Waitress (still
smiling)
- OK, boys! It will be for the next
time, then!!!
Virgil
- OK! That's it!! Be quick with
those pizzas, will you???
Waitress (while
leaving)
- I will for sure!! ' See you
later!!!!
Thirtieth-
first Scene
(Dante and Virgil)
Dante (very
abashed after keeping his eyes on the waitress’ bottom)
- I’m
speechless my master… but doesn’t she has any sense of decency…?
Virgil (with
a hand’s gesture)
- I’m surprised my son, you’ve seen much worse than
that in our trip…
Dante
- Have
I?
Virgil: Of course you have, my son! The world is quite
changed since you left, ‘ you know?
Dante: I guess it did,
noble father, but women’s modesty… are so innate… I would say…
Virgil: Forget about, my son. Look! In order to avoid
any scandal on you I’ll tell you what it has gone through in the last centuries
about sexual behavior; first of all women have left any shyness and hesitation
to become venturing…
Dante:
(disappointed and displeased) Did they really?
Virgil: For sure! They acquired a great deal of
initiative; a very sexual impetus, ‘ you know?
Dante (l.b.): They seem to have gone quite far from
honesty and gentleness…
Virgil: Surely they have, my son!
Dante: And what about men?
Virgil: Well, they seem to be consequently quite
afraid…
Dante: Men frightened by women? Am I hearing right?
Virgil: You are correct my son!!!
Dante: I can’t believe it!!!
Virgil: And it’s not all: they go sheltering on the
other side…
Dante. The other side of what?
Virgil (loosing
for a while his usual self control): The other side of the moon, what else?
Dante: (thoughtful): May be I see: they turn to
buggers… I suppose we’ll find them in the bottom of the hell!
Virgil (reacquiring his calmness) Look my son: I’m
sorry for you but the world, from that point of view, has really changed a lot.
Love is no more meant to be only a male-female affair; also the family starts
now to be recognized between two men or two women!
Dante (confused): It sounds unusual, not to say
repulsive or disgusting!!!
Virgil: It’s a long and controversial achievement
which lead such families even to the right of acquiring its own issue…
Dante (really piqued and upset): Besides to be against
nature, that’s eventually impossible!!!!
Virgil (cutting straight): Well, we’ll have time to
discuss it later on! Haven’t you notice that the sinners we met have not been scheduled on the basis of their sexual
habits; their sexual behavior, as a matter of fact, is not relevant anymore;
the hell opens its jaws for more cruel rascals; be good and get over it my son;
the social parameters have basically changed since you left; don’t you think,
after all, that a man or a woman, are to be blamed or praised for what they do
of good and bad?
Dante: I would never think that lechery
and salaciousness would become
morally legal…
Virgil: Oh no, my son! Don’t mistake: malice and
incontinence are still punishable but in fact of sex you can behavior as you
like. Anyway, let’s finish now our visit to the ante hell; you have already seen with your own eyes the
really horrible sinners of these disgraceful centuries (the lights will be off)
Dante: What’s going on, master?
Virgil: Come here, son! Let’s find a stash for the
next scene!!!
Dante
-
You
told me father that after diner we’re going to a Stock Exchange…
Virgil
-
If
you are not too tired, my son…
Dante
-
I’m
not for sure! Furthermore it’s better not to go to bed soon after diner!!!
Virgil
-
I
see… You need your time for digesting
pizza!
Dante
-
You
don’t master?
Virgil
I’m
really an old one!!!’ you see? My time has
gone for each and every thing, bad or nice, it doesn’t matter anymore for me…
to be continued...
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