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Updated: June 12, 2025
"I noticed extra workers coming out from the hiring agencies in Storisende, and the crop was all in across the Calders. Big wine-pressing this year?" "Yes, we're up to our necks in melons," the old planter grumbled. "Gehenna of a big crop. Price'll drop like a brick of collapsium, and this time next year we'll be using brandy to wash our feet in."
"To be young no more, to be poor and powerless, to have no hope in this world nor belief in a better, to have lost even belief in one's self is not that to be in Gehenna? I am punished for my sins, men say. Hypocrites! liars! Why is he not punished? Why is he proud, and strong, and prosperous? Sins?
But some will say, Granted that the authors of the Commination Service did not wish evil to sinners granted that they did not long to pray, with bell, book, and candle, that they might be tormented for ever in Gehenna granted that they did not desire to burn their bodies on earth; those words are still dark and unchristian.
It requires an effort of the imagination to recall and picture the fact that in the first hour of Du Maurier's mere amusement Ruskin was adding his lachrymation to Carlyle's over a society going swiftly to Gehenna. It is the entire absence of despair, bitterness, or cynicism in his work that gives it its altogether unique place in the history of social satire.
With which assurance Raleigh went ahead with his preparations, and within twelve hours the Gehenna was under way, carrying a full complement of crew and officers, with every state-room on board occupied by some spirit of the more illustrious kind.
"I know it," was the response. "But I can't help it. During the campaign I am kept so infernally busy I hardly know where I am." "Campaign, eh?" I put in. "Do you have campaigns in Hades?" "Yes," replied Boswell, "and we are having a well, to be polite, a regular Gehenna of a time. Things have changed much in Hades latterly.
But while fanaticism and enthusiasm are being defined a work more difficult than is commonly fancied we will go on to consider another answer. We are told that the strength of Islam lay in the hope of their sensuous Paradise and fear of their sensuous Gehenna.
With which assurance Raleigh went ahead with his preparations, and within twelve hours the Gehenna was under way, carrying a full complement of crew and officers, with every state-room on board occupied by some spirit of the more illustrious kind.
It does not commonly improve the sympathies of a man to be in the habit of thrusting knives into his fellow-creatures and burning them with red-hot irons, any more than it improves them to hold the blinding-white cantery of Gehenna by its cool handle and score and crisp young souls with it until they are scorched into the belief of Transubstantiation or the Immaculate Conception.
"This country was all fresh and beautiful once," he said; "and now it is Gehenna. Down that way nothing but pot-banks and chimneys belching fire and dust into the face of heaven . . . . . But what does it matter? An end comes, an end to all this cruelty . . . . . To-morrow." He spoke the last word in a whisper. "To-morrow," she said, speaking in a whisper too, and still staring out of the window.
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