He only wants to go as far as Dante, telling a morally invested story with the artistry that he has.īut Dante really did redraw the lines of eschatology, whether we have read him or not. Lewis wants here to avoid a school of thought that would blame him for redrawing the faint lines of historic teaching about the after-life. In The Great Divorce, Lewis describes heaven and hell with vivid clarity: the great, apathetic, narcissistic, blandness of hell contrasted to the bright, sharp, penetrating beauty of heaven. The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world.” But the transmortal conditions are solely an imaginative supposal: they are not even a guess or a speculation at what may actually await us. It has of course-or I intended it to have-a moral. “I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. Lewis is certainly not immune to being co-opted by this group or that. You know what I mean, I think. Moreover, Lewis warned us in the preface to The Great Divorce that we should avoid certain sorts of speculation: That’s right, the picture to the right is about the hidden Roswell UFO links in the King James Bible.Ĭ.S. When read this way the Bible most especially becomes secret code for everything from American foreign policy to the missing political allies of Atlantis to the reason why its words mean the exact opposite of what they say. This is dangerous territory–partly because some have trumbled into the “real” meaning of this or that book and caused an awful mess.
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