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The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien.It is written in a satirical, epistolary style and, while it is fictional in format, the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it.
The volume also contains a follow-up to Lewis' 1942 novel The Screwtape Letters in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast." The second, fourth and fifth pieces were published in the U.K. in a volume called Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other pieces (1965); the first, sixth and seventh were published in the U.K. in Fern-seed and Elephants and ...
The Screwtape Letters represent his side of the correspondence with his nephew Wormwood, as mentor to the young demon who is charged with the guidance of one man. He has a secretary called Toadpipe. The Toast is Screwtape's after-dinner speech at the Tempters' Training College and satirises American and British or English public education.
But under Reviews I think it would be fair to notice Orwell's hostile remarks toward The Screwtape Letters, e.g., in I Write As I Please, 27 October 1944. There is also some essay which I cannot find quickly online in which Orwell complains that people who ought to know better compare Screwtape favorably to Gulliver's Travels.
Vi coactus (V.C.) is a Latin term meaning "having been forced" or "having been compelled". In Latin, cōgō means "I compel" or "I force". The passive participle of cōgō is coāctus, meaning "having been forced" or "having been compelled" or "coerced" . [1] "Vi coactus" or "V.C." is used with a signature to indicate that the signer was under ...
Undulation may refer to: Undulation of the geoid, the separation between the geoid and the reference ellipsoid of the Earth; Undulation point, a point on a curve where the curvature vanishes but does not change sign; Undulatory locomotion, the most primitive of vertebrate locomotor patterns; In botany, a wave shaped part such as a leaf
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Adherents to the theory spell the term "Capitis Diminutio", and claim that capitis diminutio maxima (meaning, in Roman law, the loss of liberty, citizenship, and family) was represented by an individual's name being written in capital letters, hence the idea of individuals having a separate legal personality. [13]