Dante

Dante's Inferno, Canto III

Then: an old man in a boat. White hair, screaming, the usual, shooing us off like pigeons: "I don't work for you! Get out! Begone! Legally I don't have to do shit!"

Dante's Inferno, Canto II

It was dark, air getting darker and so on. You know how nightfall comes on. Dark, and the usual accoutrements that come with the dark.