Jed Doyle’s Reviews > The Great Divorce > Status Update

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. . . . They sink lower—become interested in their own personalities and then in nothing but their own reputations.”

“It is nearer to such as you than ye think.” I should be reading more Lewis.

Great heavens. “I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness: you are not needed there at all. No scope for your talents: only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you will see the face of God.” GOLY!