CS Lewis: The ScrewTape Letters

..............................

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• the
• screwtape
• letters

[randyhelzerman]

I'm surprised the book was anti-liberal; "screwtape and wormwood" always seemed to me to have vaguely homoerotic overtones.

[melsbasketcase]

There is a video on here with a theatrical production of the book and Wormwood is played by a female. I can't remember if the book specified Wormwood's gender.

[zootzootrs]

I think this woman needs a cup of COFFEE, bad!

[Stardweller1]

@melsbasketcase It did. Wormwood was male.

[BrWarrior247]

Thats a wonderful review. Thanks! God loves you, and everybody.

:D

[jackandmeg2001]

@melsbasketcase

What production would that be? Sounds extremely interesting.

[randyhelzerman]

@popthekeen89 Calling me an idiot eh? *chuckle* dude it was a joke; rent a sense of humor.

[popthekeen89]

@randyhelzerman , uhhh screwtape and wormwood are incomprehensible spiritual beings drunk on suffering, manipulation and spiritual degredation, i can only see an idiot as interpreting the undertone of their dialogue as "homo-erotic".

[jessepait111]

I think you are very charming!

[skutre]

Oh well

That's my favorite part about Magical Thinking. It takes things like biological urges, destructive behaviors and psychological archetypes, personifies them, thereby externalizing them, removing the responsibility from the actor.

That person is not a bad person, they are succumbing to their 'demons', which are some sort of supernatural external gremlin twhachamacallits.

Of course if the person behaves in a positive, creative or humane manner, then obviously

GODIDDIT .

[deidzoeb]

I'm looking forward to finally reading the rest of Narnia soon, but I hope I can put the logical fallacies out of mind that I read in Miracles. Sort of like trying to enjoy a movie with Tom Cruise in it by putting out of mind his claims that mental illness can be treated with just exercise and vitamins. ...or like enjoying a Woody Allen or Polanski movie, I suppose. It's not always easy, or possible.

[earth2k8]

Also, he did write some really interesting stuff - Narnia, Till We Have Faces, Out of the Silent Planet - but his true creativity always becomes a platform for the rigidity of his religious/philosophical thought. He was friends with Tolkien, part of writing circle with him, and I think he competed with Tolkien in a literary way. But Tolkien, I always felt, dealt with truths, and Lewis with dogmas. Tolkiens literary worlds ring true, Lewis's worlds are always a little contrived.