

Soon, however, a large crowd of “real” people-solid people-comes to meet them. When the passengers disembark, they discover that they are all semi-transparent, like ghosts. Their destination is a grassy plain on the summit of a high cliff. Before it reaches its destination, the narrator has endured the sob stories of two fellow passengers and witnessed an all-out brawl on board. The book begins with the narrator boarding a bus in the mean streets of the netherworld and taking a trip that will determine his eternal destiny.Īfter the narrator boards the bus, it takes off into the sky. But in his 1946 book The Great Divorce, C.S. The phrase “bus ride from hell” no doubt conjures up bad memories of trips to and from school on the big yellow bus, or perhaps visions of a cross-country journey you would rather forget. By Clare Walker, Holy Trinity In-House Writer
