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Article: GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL THE UNDERWORLD IS MAKING A BIG COMEBACK -- AND IT HAS BEEN REMODELED.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 17, 1994
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Byline: ROY RIVENBURG - Los Angeles Times
Just when it seemed safe to enter the afterlife, eternal damnation has returned.
That glowing light at the end of the tunnel, the story goes, might be a blast furnace.
Hell -- after practically vanishing from public thought in recent decades -- is making a comeback in a rush of new books, philosophical debates and accounts of near-death experiences.
It also has been remodeled.
Since Dante left, the place has been overhauled by everyone from Catholic priests and a Tennessee cardiologist to Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson. The result: a state of the art Hades with such innovations ...