The Dunciad in the City. Theobald sleeps with his head on the goddess's lap, with royal blue fogs surrounding him. In his dream, he goes to Hades and visits the shade of Elkannah Settle. There he sees millions of souls waiting for new bodies as their souls transmigrate. Bavius dips each soul in Lethe to make it dull before sending it to a new body. (In classical mythology, the souls of the dead were put into Lethe to forget their lives before passing on to their final reward, but these are dipped in Lethe before being born.) Elkannah Settle hails Theobald as
Voices in the Earth of the planet he proceeds to play an old CD player. As Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 begins, Knowles is confronted by ghosts of the planet. He finds them in an abandoned café where they ask him not to forget their existence. Knowles pleads with Carlyle not to strip the planet but she insists upon it anyway. Knowles soon discovers that the ghosts are spirits of the forefathers who had not left the Earth when life began dissolving. They believe that humans are coming back to repopulate the planet, but Knowles explains why they are really there. He tries