The Discovery of Heaven

‰ЫПWas everything possible and could anything be done, since it would one day irrevocably be cast aside? Even in heaven eternal bliss would be possible only by the grace of a criminal loss of memory. Should the blessed not be punished with hell for this? Everything had been wrecked for all eternity ‰ЫУ not only here, but by thousands of earlier and later occasions, which no one remembered. Heaven was impossible; only hell might perhaps exist.‰Ыќ

‰ЫПWhen I see your pitiful appearance, I have to think back to the dreadful time when I was still a bachelor. What a nightmare! In my mind‰ЫЄs eye I see a desolate landscape with a single bare tree in the biting wind, into the teeth of which a lonely, stooping pilgrim dressed in rags, with a long staff, is laboring on his way to his mournful end. And now look at me ‰Ы_ I have just attained the highest state of human self-fulfillment: marriage!‰Ыќ