Original artwork, not a still
Small Gods • 1992
YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? “Yes. Yes, of course.” Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A familiar explanation of hell is raised only to be rejected, and the correction is postponed to future experience. Death offers no replacement definition. That withheld answer gives the exchange its unease: the listener is told that understanding will arrive, without being allowed to know what it involves.
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