TMoP Chap 11...p. 134 Memories of the Imagination

[braam van bruggen]

The harrowing of hell, or, also, the bodhisattva Kshitigarbha (sp?) "If I 
don't go to hell to save the beings suffering there, who will?"

Braam

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> D. "Is that the answer to the question to himself? IS that what she is 
> setting him free to do: to write a book of evil? And to what end? To 
> liberate himself from evil or to cut hiself off from good?"
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> Cf. Milton "of Satan's party"....Shakespeare, something about having to
> know evil to write about it..................
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> Coetzee suggests?: Work about evil PARTAKES of evil? Or discharges it?
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