the curiously extended coda to the book’s scenes of judgment, considered dispassionately, conforms very well to that notion of two distinct eschatological horizons that I described above: the more proximate horizon of historical judgment, where the good and evil in all of us are brought to light and (by whatever means necessary) separated; and the more remote horizon of an eternity where a final peace awaits us all, beyond everything that ever had the power to divide souls from each other.
