By Charles Halton on Monday, 1 February 2010 at 6:34 am

The prospect was made worse by the ability of the damned to witness the simultaneous bliss of their friends and relations in heaven; rather like economy-class passengers, huddled in the back of the aeroplane, catching an occasional glimpse behind the curtain of business-class travellers cosseted with hot towels and champagne.

Keith Thomas on descriptions of hell within early modern England (The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England, 231).


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Comment by Brian Small

Made Monday, 1 of February , 2010 at 10:34 pm

In recent years I have become convinced that Hell will be sitting in a middle seat of an airplane that never lands….

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