What did the boy see on his omnibus ride? The celestial Omnibus
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The Celestial Omnibus” is a short story by E.M. Forster, first collected in the 1911 book The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories. It is an allegorical tale about an innocent and poetry-loving boy’s magical ascent to Heaven via bus. Forster was a British author known for his observations on the classism and rigid gender and social roles of British society around the turn of the century. His best-known works include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India.
The story opens with an unnamed little boy in London who has long observed a strange signpost that stands across the street from his house. It points to an empty alleyway and reads simply: “To Heaven.” The boy’s parents insist the sign is a joke by some “naughty young men,” one of whom was a poet.