Transcript: Hell--A Hot Topic in Art and Literature for 4000 Years

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March 6, 1994
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LIANE HANSEN, Host: `Hell hath no limits,' Christopher Marlowe. `Hell is other people,' Jean Paul Sartre. `Hell is oneself,' T. S. Eliot. `Hell is the largest shared construction project in imaginative history, ' Alice K. Turner. Turner is the fiction editor of `Playboy' magazine who has written a history of hell, published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company. The book has been called `a Michelin Guide to the netherworld.' Alice Turner joins us from New York. Hello. Thanks for joining us.

ALICE TURNER, Author: Thanks, I'm delighted to be here.

HANSEN: Now, you are not one of the 60 percent of Americans that told a Gallup poll that they believe in ...

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