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James Wood: Afterlives, 14 April 2011
After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
by John Casey.
Oxford, 468 pp., £22.50, January 2010,978 0 19 509295 0 Show More
by John Casey.
Oxford, 468 pp., £22.50, January 2010,
“... from Aswan, dated to about 2300 BC, features a nobleman defending himself thus: I dug a lake, and I planted trees. The king praised me. My father made a will for me, for I was excellent – a man beloved of his father, praised of his mother, whom all his brothers loved. I gave bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, I ferried him who had no ... ”