History of The Great Divorce

	Revision 2 . . December 12, 2001 9:01 am by Ed Poor [light copyeditng, needs fuller treatment]
	Revision 1 . . September 23, 2001 11:13 pm by Sjn28 [Initial version]

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Changed: 3c3

In the book, the narrator (Lewis himself) dreams that he is in a grim and gloomy town (a depiction of Hell). He finds a bus for people who wish to see Heaven, gets on, and converses with some of the other people on the bus. The bus eventually reaches paradise, and the people on the bus realise that they are ghosts?, and every feature of the landscape (including drops of water and blades of grass) causes them immense pain.

In the book, the narrator (Lewis himself) dreams that he is in a grim and gloomy town (a depiction of Hell or purgatory for those leave it). He finds a bus for people who wish to see Heaven, gets on, and converses with some of the other people on the bus. The bus eventually reaches paradise, and the people on the bus realise that they are ghosts?, and every feature of the landscape (including drops of water and blades of grass) causes them immense pain.

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Shining people come to meet those from the town, and try to persuade them to repent and enter Heaven proper. Most of the ghosts refuse, giving various reasons and excuses. Some of the ghosts do not realise that they have been in Hell.

Shining people come to meet those from the town, and try to persuade them to repent and enter Heaven proper. Most of the ghosts refuse, giving various reasons and excuses. None of the ghosts realise that they have been in Hell.