PEACE as Faust

Roy C. Lackey · 04 Oct 2002, 19:27 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE as Faust
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:27:27 -0500
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 Stone Ox writes:

>Is this really the right interpretation of the ending, leaving the
ghost of
>Weer caught eternally in purgatory, while Olivia has ascended to
heaven?

I agree that Weer isn't El Diablo. But how is it that Olivia gets to go
to heaven? She didn't strike me as even a nice person, much less as
worthy of eternal reward. Before marriage she was a fornicator;
afterwards an adulteress.

-Roy

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