The two places, Lewis insists, could never coexist. Evil was evil, and could never be altered, and one could never keep even a small “souvenir” of hell and expect to see heaven. Only by backpedaling and returning to the path of good could one shirk evil and be rid of it. This, of course, involved full confrontation with one’s own flaws. The two eternities were mutually exclusive, a very different notion from the marriage of them as written by Blake.
