Hell Is Other People (But So Is Heaven)—Sartre’s No Exit & The Good Place
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Hell Is Other People (But So Is Heaven)—Sartre’s No Exit & The Good Place

INEZ: Wait! You’ll see how simple it is. Childishly simple. Obviously there aren’t any physical torments—you agree, don’t you? And yet we’re in hell. And no one else will come here. We’ll stay in this room together, the three of us, for ever and ever.…In short, there’s someone absent here the official torturer. GARCIN [sotto…

“Rape of the Lock” by Pope: A Complete Guide to Canto 1
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“Rape of the Lock” by Pope: A Complete Guide to Canto 1

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a petty social dispute is exaggerated and elevated to the grandeur and significance of an…epic battle? And what happens if a genius of a poet transforms a real life incident, a quarrel between two aristocratic families, into a masterpiece of 18th century literature? The Rape of the…