Traveling in spacetime with Virgil - 12

 

Second Act

First Scene

When the curtain is open again it’ll  be visible a luxuriant landscape with birdsongs, water’s gurgling  and brush’s rustles.

 

Dante: What a peaceful place, master!!! It seems a paradise!

Virgil: (laughing) Don’t mix up your senses! That’s a place of repentance, not of joy!!! Here people find another chance to deserve definitely the eternal joy!

Dante (surprised): Do you mean  they could yet get lost in hell?

Virgil: Yes, son, they actually could!

Dante. I’ve always thought that purgatory  was meant to deserve the paradise…

Virgil: There must be such a places, but not here!

Dante: But people here do pay for their blames?

Virgil: They also do that; but they must show another attitude to the meaning of life!

Dante: But people do reincarnate? Or do they play the same role they had in the earth?

Virgil: There are other places for reincarnation my son. Here  you find the same characters of the earth. Only they have other opportunities. In some way this place recalls the way the earth must have been before the man became so complex and adulterated…

Before Dante might interact a sound of cane flute (better if it comes from Sardinian threecaneflutes launeddas) is heard coming behind an half open door…

Dante (ecstatically): What a celestial sound? Who is playing it there?

Virgil: ( after bending to see) Have a look yourself…

Dante: Who is that  wonderful lady?

Virgil: Would you like to talk to her?

Dante: Please, master! It would be great if I could!

Virgil (knocking at the door): May I come in?

to be continued...