Status Updates From The Great Divorce: A Dream

Ch 2:boy talks,hard life,jumped in front train,led him to the Grey Town.wont return on bus w/ others,will stay.reading interrupted,intense but harmless mayhem.appears next to Intelligent Man,says in Grey Town they argue and move,town spreads apart.says he can rebuild economy bringing back goods from trip.man who disagrees heard them.bus rises,bright light,opens window,smart Man shut it,mirror appears on wall

Ch 1:1st person narrator, stuck in rain and night town,stands at bus stop, unsure why but drawn.some people leave,moves forward few spots, impressive bus arrives,gossip about driver.People rush to board,plenty of space,narrator sits apart from the crowd.boy sits next to him,complaining about others and trying to show him writing,then the narrator notices bus has lifted off the ground, flying high above the town

Preface:Lewis refers to William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,suggests good and evil belong together.Lewis disagrees,argues heaven and hell are completely separate,divorce rather than marriage.book is fantasy,explore how choices and attitudes lead toward heaven or hell.not trying to describe afterlife literally,uses imagination to show spiritual ideas w/o encouraging factual curiosity about the afterworld

Yeahhhhh, hit me with those Dante references!!