Who Might Also Know How To Get You Out Again

Grateful Dead: Dark Star...2/24/74

This is perhaps why
Dante chooses the poet
Virgil to be his guide
in the Inferno;
in visiting a strange location,
it's always best to go
with someone who's
been there before,
and – most important of all
on a sightseeing tour of Hell
– who might also know
how to get you out again.

--Margaret Atwood
Negotiating with the Dead