In Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on The Voyage Noah's wife asks " what else could heaven be ... but a world afloat ... nothing hard or real to fall against or stumble over; everything distant, everything benign," (pg 18) but at the end of the novel the Ark is hell where the innocent are shut in perpetual darkness and are devoid of God. ... (pg 279) She throws her lot in with the humans to live with them and face death with them, while Noah's God leaves "His friends to rot - alone." ...