Show Ideas Heaven There used to be a popular form of torture tor-ture in the form of Books of Questions Ques-tions which once figured on most drawingroom tables and in which visitors visit-ors were expected to write their definitions defini-tions of happiness misery etc How different by the way would be many definitions of both these conditions condi-tions The old womaris idea of heaven as a place where shewould sit all day in a clean apron and knit and sing hymns would not be an entirely satisfying satis-fying ideal to some minds while Cowley might have sympathized with the denizen deni-zen of a town slum who on her deathbed being comforted with allusions to the golden city promptly retorted HOh no if ever I get to heaven I hope I shall be let to live in the country London Standard |