Eddie’s interview with the Devil resumes…
Eddie Willers: “Well, well, what happened when she arrived?”
The Devil: “Why, the moment the gates of Paradise were open and she walked in; before she had been there two seconds, by her watch (though to my thinking her watch must have long dissolved into its elements on the way), she cried out that those two seconds were worth walking not a quadrillion kilometers but a quadrillion of quadrillions, raised to the quadrillionth power! In fact, she sang hosannah and overdid it so, that some persons there of lofty ideas wouldn’t shake hands with her at first — she’d become too rapidly reactionary, they said. The Russian temperament. I repeat, it’s a legend. I give it for what it’s worth, so that’s the sort of ideas we have on such subjects even now.”
Transition to Paradise…