Realms Frequented By The Muses

In which a depressed ego of Vulcan, endowed with undisputable genius in manufacturing great medical appliances and convenient flying saucers, as well as evil , nevertheless very ingenious, mechanical contraptions, feels tormented by the goddess of Memory. His thoughts are involuntarily and constantly steered toward the humiliation, that he has suffered at the hands of his unfaithful wife Venus and the disdainful laughter that the gods bestowed upon him, as he exposed Mars and his wife in the adulterous act. Vulcan seeks help from Hermes, the messenger of the gods.

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Hercules makes his guest appearance at the Olympia. The Olympian assembly is honored by the appearance of the renowned terrestrial hero Hercules. In order to impress his divine audience, and no less to cement his, at present honorary membership in the pantheon he supplies a graphic proof of his regrettable and not very chivalrous deed, wherein he is depicted shooting poisonous arrows at the defenseless Centaur Nessos. Furthermore he is shown shooting the deadly venom across the river Euenos. And like a fool seems to be unaware of the fact, that Deianeira, who till then had never had it with a centaur, had made some subtle passive feminine advances at Nessos, the latter however being a child of mother nature, took them at their face value, which Deianeira had of course presumed he would not, it being a civil society norm, which one could take for granted, even in realms, where such norms or for that matter all the kings new clothes were unknown and unseen and certainly no prerequisites. However some fans of Deianeira claim that it was probably only some unconscious Freudian slipping of her negligee down to her hips or her clothes getting wet in the river, which made the lusty Nessos lustful.

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