I have known a human defended from strong temptations to social ambition by a still stronger taste for tripe and onions. You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the "best" people, the "right" food, the "important" books. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring twopence what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore–armed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. Such things, I grant you, have nothing of virtue in them but there is a sort of innocence and humility and self–forgetfulness about them which I distrust.
The mere word phase will very likely do the trick. But, as I said before, it is jargon, not reason, you must rely on.In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together. It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek. The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour.The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy's own ground.This epistolary novel takes the form of a series of letters from the seasoned demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter. The Screwtape Letters is a 1942 Christian apologetic novel by C.
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