The Screw Tape Letter

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C. S. LEWIS

Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford TO J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The best way to private road out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to lampoon and flout him, for he backnot bear scorn.â€"Luther The devill . . the prowde spirite . . cannot endure to be mocked.â€"doubting Thomas More

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PREFACE I HAVE no intention of explaining how the symmetry which I straightaway offer to the public fell into my hands. in that respect atomic number 18 two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The otherwise is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves atomic number 18 equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. The sort of script which is used in this book can be very(prenominal) easily obtained by some(prenominal)one who has once learned the knack; precisely disposed or excitable people who might score a bad use of it shall not learn it from me. Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that Screwtape says should be assumed to be true even from his own angle.



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