Canto IX/1 The theatricality of the Furies' appearance is emphasised by the likening of the crenellations to footlights. As in Canto VII/1 this derives from a minute original drawing. Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone represent as well as an anti-Trinity, a parody of the three Graces and the three Celestial Ladies who have pity on Dante as Virgil explains in Canto II. The irony of the choice of these names for the various printing branches of Editions Alecto where, by fire, my own way ahead in the making of this book was barred seems, at least at this distance of time, quite elegant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.