Tag: SCREWTAPE PROPOSES A TOAST

  • Screwtape Proposes a Toast

    C. S. Lewis Part 2 The feeling I mean is of course that which prompts a man to say I’m as good as you. The first and most obvious advantage is that you thus induce him to enthrone at the centre of his life a good, solid resounding lie. I don’t mean merely that his…

  • Screwtape Proposes A Toast

    C. S. Lewis Part 1 I was often asked or advised to add to the original ‘Screwtape Letters’, but for many years I felt not the least inclination to do it. Though I had never written anything more easily, I never wrote with less enjoyment. The ease came, no doubt, from the fact that the…