From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE as Faust
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:27:27 -0500

 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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