My homage to ’The Screwtape Letters’
’The Screwtape Letters’ is a literary work produced by C.S. Lewis.
First published as a weekly series of letters in ’The Guardian’ over the course of the summer of 1941, The Screwtape Letters are a series of theological musings on the nature of temptation and corruption of the human ’Id’ and moral structure. In other words, what does it take to bend a man’s moral compass?
The main protagonist (possibly antagonist) is ’Wormwood’, the demon nephew of a high rank & file demon; ’Screwtape’, that is retiring from service and imparting his long garnered wisdom to his young nephew as he begins his vocation as a ’Junior Tempter’ in Hell’s war for mankinds’ soul.
(Excellent run-on sentence if you ask me)
To the ends of “How best to corrupt mortal mans’ soul?” -
Screwtape leads Wormwood through a series of exercises on his mortal charge, known only as ’The Patient’, in the sometimes in-obvious art of perversion.
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An excellent, easily digestible and humorous read for anyone contemplating the moral platitudes of everyday life.
There is also an excellent audio version on YouTube that has been reposted many times. I will post a link, but note: I have NO affiliation with any particular party who has uploaded said content.
With a total runtime of just over seven hours, should you choose to listen, enter with an open mind and a sense of humor.
Dry as it might be.
-Luciferrin
