Letter number thirty could perhaps be titled “What is Real?”
- Why might moderate fatigue be better soil for sin than absolute exhaustion? (paragraph 2)
- How does the devil use the idea of “real” to his advantage? (par. 4) How does emotion and/or the intellect play into this?
- The use of the word “real” Screwtape says, is in its emotional value – first placed on one side of the account, then on the other. What examples does he use? What others can you think of? (par. 4)
- How is it that we so often “pay for the cake and not eat it”? (par. 4)
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