Alice Monologue from The Harlequinade: An Excursion

From The Harlequinade: An Excursion by Dion Clayton Calthrop

female · philosophical · 1:09 min

To ferry him across. And on the earth side they meet... (UNCLE EDWARD: Not so fast.) They meet a Greek philosopher whose name is... (UNCLE EDWARD: Hipponax.) Aren't some of these names dreadfully difficult to remember. Hipponax has just died, and he is waiting to be ferried over. And it's rather awkward for him, as, when he was alive, he wrote a book to prove there weren't any gods and there wasn't any after life. And then comes Momus, who's a sort of half-god, not important enough to be rowed over, but he has swum the river as he wants to join the party. Hipponax stays to look after Charon's boat. And that's how it all begins. When the three of them get to earth Mercury's called Harlequin, and Momus, Clown; and... But I tell you all that later.

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