A group of people arrives in Heaven, and God greets them, even though He momentarily forgets where they have come from-probably because their planet is about to come to an end.

Welcome, God says, as He quickly selects who will be placed where. In Heavenly Discourse, Charles Erskine Scott's collection of satires published in New York in 1927 from which I am drawing, God makes this decision: the fundamentalists will be placed on the 57th level belo