Here’s a short primer for a certain acquitted celebrity on what to expect when judgment is finally passed upon him:
The Inferno, by Dante. In which, guided by the poet Virgil, our hero sees those who murdered their loved ones forever tormented for their crimes.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards. The greatest of Puritan sermon’s, the one that gave birth to the very notion of Everlasting Hellfire.
The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien. A work by Ireland’s funniest writer, during the course of which you realize that the narrator is writing from Hell.
No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre. In which Hell is other people, and we don’t mean A. C. Cowlihgs and Kato Kaelin (though for us, that would be Hell enough).
