A Short Stay in Hell

I read this small book before bed and then couldn't sleep the rest of the night. The contemplation of eternity is always daunting, but Steven L. Peck's work here made this a truly visceral experience for me, despite it even being a finite “eternity” driving the main premise of the book (see excerpt below).

Definitely worth a read if you can stomach a “short stay in hell” during your read.


Favorite passage:

“Could I keep living like this forever? How could I continue existing in this Hell? And yet there was no choice. Existence goes on and on here. Finite does not mean much if you can't tell any practical difference between it and infinite. Every morning the despair gripped me, a cold despair that reached inside, creating a catatonic numbness.”