AtDDtA(16): "Now Light all Cruising-Lamps"

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/24/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

>    "'Now light all cruising-lamps,' ordered Captain Toadflax.  As the
> searchlight filaments, fashioned of a secret alloy, became heated to
> the correct operating temperature and wave-length, the view beneath
> the dunes, blurry at first but soon adjusted, sprang vividly to life.
>    "It as little resembled the upper-world view of the desert as the
> depths of an ocean do its own surface...." (AtD, Pt. III, p. 434 f.)

Oh, and, duh ...

http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/

http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/

http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/utopia/index2.html

As well as ...

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/o/orpheus.html

http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/0800/underworld.htm

http://www.musicaltheatreguide.com/composers/offenbach/orpheus_in_the_underworld.htm