In bringing Sebold's meditative novel to the big screen, Jackson depicts a world between heaven and earth.

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This world is not heaven.

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"Suffer suffer for world, enjoy for heaven, " Fela chants, in that timeless masterpiece.

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North America is home to many religious communities, one of which - the Hutterites - believe that living communally and separately from what they refer to as "the world" will secure them a place in heaven.

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The annual Consumer Electronics Show is geek heaven on Earth -- a Super Bowl, Disney World and New York Fashion Week all rolled into one for the techies who flock to Vegas to eyeball the newest gadgets from the world's leading manufacturers.

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Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.

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