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Literature from the Low Countries
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The Chief [God] is an idealist, a darling, who wants the best for people without knowing what he has taken on. But Lucifer knows they would prefer to let heaven and earth go under rather than get rid of their car . . . So heaven and earth will go under.
So speaks one of the angels who act as chorus in Harry Mulisch's ambitious, compelling novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992). The words might at first seem surprising in a writer from Holland, a modern, if not post-modern society, urban...
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Not knowing when to stop
The Spectator
; THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN by Harry Mulisch, translated by Paul Vincent Viking 17, pp. 728 Among the many branches of fantastic literature, theology is surely one of the most successful. To imagine a fabulous Creator and then to explore the rules of His creation has provided, over the centuries, whole
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Life, the universe and everything
The Independent - London
; The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch, translated by Paul Vincent, Viking, pounds 17 In Italian religious painting, unity between the upper and lower levels is often assured by abstracting the earthly (for example, through idealised figures) and humanising the sublime (as in those smirking
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Why We Need Heaven: In troubled times, the afterlife beckons with visions of dark-eyed virgins, gardens and palaces, the bliss of God's eternal presence and the joy of uniting with loved ones. How can the promise of paradise inspire so many to goodness, and few to murder?
Newsweek
; Byline: Lisa Miller Hagar Zar is sure her husband, Gilad, is in heaven. Perhaps that's why she looks so serene and clear-eyed when she talks about the gruesome way he died--gunned down by Palestinians early one morning while he was at work. In her little house in the Jewish settlement of Itamar,
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What should we believe about heaven?
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; Is there really a place called heaven? Or, is heaven a superstitious myth? A tool for religious bribery? A product of wishful thinking? Prompted by Mitch Albom's The Five People You will meet in Heaven, people everywhere are talking about heaven. And according to a recent Newsweek poll, 76 percent
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HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS THE VIEWS FROM DOWN HERE
Rocky Mountain News
; Heaven is that place up there, out there, way beyond the blue. It looks like . . . something. From pulpits to bookshelves, movie screens to artists' canvases, visions of heaven have been a source of faith and comfort for the devout and of artistic inspiration even for the theologically indifferent.
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