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dustydigger
Posted 2022-01-08 5:47 AM (#23680 - in reply to #23638)
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Location: UK		Thoroughly enjoyed C S Lewis allegorical novel,The Great Divorce. The writer, in a dream, boards a bus on a drizzly afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings far removed from his expectations and comes to significant realizations about the ultimate consequences of everyday behavior. This is the starting point for a profound meditation upon good and evil..Written in 1945 we see almost a shadow version of the heaven of The Last Battle in the Narnia books where even the most beautiful things of earth are mere shadows of the super reality of the new world. Fascinating,and there is plenty to wince about shamefacedly as so many of our excuses,hypocrisies and selfishness are exposed,and many of the visitors to heaven get back on the bus to return to Hell. Giving up on vices and pleasures is just too much for them! lol.Good stuff.
From the sublime to the ridiculous,a guilty pleasure was Scrapyard Ship, by Mark Wayne McGinnis,where an ex-navy SEAL discovers an alien spaceship hidden in an dry aquifer cave under his father's scrapyard - as you do - and is soon fighting off evil alien invaders. Totally preposterous but enormous fun. Just what I need when grounded by ill health and withrampant covid just beyond the front door.

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