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Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Comprising most of Lewis' writings.
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Postby Roonwit » October 16th, 2008, 10:39 pm

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Lark » January 24th, 2009, 6:19 pm

Paul,

Hopefully your annotationswill include some short description of each letter so people can easily go reread some of there favorites in the future; or find some extended comments on selected subjects.

For example, in the front of my SL I have written the page numbers of different topics that I thought was good:

p. 26-27 Temptation, focusing in versus outward.
34-36 How God guides us, desire versus intending.
etc.

Wishing you success with the project .
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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Paul F. Ford » January 29th, 2009, 10:10 pm

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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby rkettering » May 6th, 2009, 4:21 am

I'm new to this forum, and I was wondering if anyone knew where Lewis came up with the name Screwtape, or if it has some kind of meaning?

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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Tuke » May 7th, 2009, 3:43 pm

Wormwood is Biblical, but I assume Screwtape is concocted.
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Re: Letters 17-18

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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby cyranorox » June 12th, 2009, 11:45 pm

Not all ethnicities produce bearded men. Like a lot of traits marked masculine, the beard is often coarse, rough, and messy; it can carry quite a load of flora, and, without plentiful water, it can turn sour. It needs tending, grooming and editing, and a good deal of feminine rejection comes from the lack of these things.

But near the end of Perelanda, Ransom comments [through his facial hair] that he had not seen a real man before; most of what we call masculine, as well as much we call feminine, is a set of makeshifts, forced polarities, customs, impositions [on women] and attempts for better or worse to act out or symbolize our concepts of gender.
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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Sven » June 13th, 2009, 12:10 pm

Let's try to stay somewhat on topic, folks. I split and moved the digression on beards to its own thread in the RSP forum.
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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby JJJ » June 23rd, 2009, 6:20 pm

Question for You - A number of years ago I came across a reference to a German Text that was composed of letters from a senior devil to a junior about a patient; the same form as TSL. I have always wanted to find the reference and the book? Any knowledge?

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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Sven » June 23rd, 2009, 7:10 pm

JJJ, you sure you're not just thinking of TSL in the German translation?


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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: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby JJJ » June 23rd, 2009, 7:21 pm

Hi - certain I am not thinking of this. My memory for numbers is sometimes abysmal, but somehow I remember a publishing date in the latter 19th c. - 188_ something comes to mind.

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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Paul F. Ford » June 23rd, 2009, 7:48 pm

You are thinking of Valdemar Adolph Thisted, Letters from Hell, for the English edition of which George MacDonald wrote the Preface, A. C. Kollymer, trans. (New York: Hunter, Robinson, 1889).
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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Sven » June 23rd, 2009, 8:06 pm

*moans* not another book I have to find and read!

ETA: For anyone looking for the book, Amazon has a paperback reprint of the English translation with the MacDonald preface, but it's listed under the translator's name, A. C. Kollmyer.

Be sure and use the Wardrobe's bookstore link! *points to the upper right corner of the page*
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Re: Questions about The Screwtape Letters

Postby Tuke » June 24th, 2009, 2:09 am

"The 'great golden chain of Concord' has united the whole of Edmund Spenser's world.... Nothing is repressed; nothing is insubordinate. To read him is to grow in mental health." The Allegory Of Love (Faerie Queene)

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