“ The enchantment of unsatisfied desire produces results which the humans can be made to mistake for the results of charity. ”
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942). copy citation
| Author | C. S. Lewis |
|---|---|
| Source | The Screwtape Letters |
| Topic | enchantment charity |
| Date | 1942 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.truechristianity.info/en/the_screwtape_letters.php |
Context
“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is, Your affectionate uncle SCREWTAPE
XXVI
MY DEAR WORMWOOD,
Yes; courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. The enchantment of unsatisfied desire produces results which the humans can be made to mistake for the results of charity. Avail yourself of the ambiguity in the word "Love": let them think they have solved by Love problems they have in fact only waived or postponed under the influence of the enchantment. While it lasts you have your chance to foment the problems in secret and render them chronic.”
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