Hell in Session?
Joss Whedon probably wasn’t the first to work with the high-school-is-hell analogy, and he probably won’t be the last.
Still, it’s funny that when school gets up and running, certain vintage posts on this blog get a lot more hits. For a long time Song of the Worms was a big hit, but recently my notes on Goya are getting a lot of hits. Someone has assigned homework!
Funnily enough, I’m in a creative writing class at the moment and had to bring in a passage to read. I read the part in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus where Faustus meets Mephistopheles for the first time. Mephistopheles admits he is damned and asserts he is in Hell.
How can this be asks Faustus, you’re right here.
To which Mephistopheles replies, for anyone who has seen the face of God and tasted the joys of Heaven, to be denied these things is Hell. Always liked that part. It might also go some way to explaining why Buffy was so cranky in season six.
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