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Comprising most of Lewis' writings.
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Letter 1

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letter 3

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Letter 4

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Letters 6-11

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Letter 6
What is meant by lay figures?
^Definition 1 under Adj. Pepole not members of the clergy.

Discuss the difference Screwtape implies between what we think is Will and what God calls Heart.

Letter 7
Can you give an example or several of what Screwtape calls a faction or coterie?

"from the parties of Paul and of Apollos at Corinth down to the High and Low parties in the Church of England." needs some explanation.

Does "the lawfullness of serving in a just war" refer to Ex 20:13?
What is a 'just' war?

Letter 8

Is there reference to this Law of Undulation outside of TSL? Did Lewis invent the phrase?

Letter 9
Words: Anodyne
Redolent
What are these "appropriate passages" in scripture that it is clear should be avoided when in a Trough.

Letter 10

What is meant by 'literary communism'
It should be noted that 'communism' is really just an empty vocabulary word to anyone under 40 who didn't live under its threat. I really have no idea what it really is other than looking it up in the dictionary.

I also had to look up Mammon.

Letter 11
Not many pepole my age know what a scoffer is.
What exactly does Screwtape mean by Austerity? Is this just rhetoric that even from his own view is just not true?
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Postby galion » January 8th, 2008, 1:28 pm

"lay figure":

In this context, a "lay figure" is an old term for an artist's (inanimate) model. In L 6, a stereotyped image.
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Letter 12-13

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Re: Letter 12-13

Postby Sven » January 9th, 2008, 10:08 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: Letter 12-13

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I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Letters 14-

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Postby Karen » January 10th, 2008, 10:00 pm

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