Brilliance. Pure Brilliance. That is what I have to say about the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. He was an inspired man I tell you.On an earlier post I put up a link to an article, which I hope you all read, about real woman. I immediately thought of this quote from Lewis.
In case you have not read, or know nothing about the Screwtape Letters, the idea is that it is a series of letters written by one devil to another. Here is the comment-
"We have engineered a great increase in the licence in which society allows to the representation of apparent nude (not the real nude) in art, and its exhibition on the stage of the bathing beach. It is all a fake of course: the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make them appear firmer and more slender and more boyish than nature allows a full- grown woman to be. Yet at the same time, the moder world is taught to believe that it is being "frank" and "healthy"and getting back to nature. As a result we are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist-making the role of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making demands more and more impossible. What follows you can easily forecast!"
Here is the link again, I sincerely recommend you read it. And read the entire way to the end. It is worth your time honest.
http://www.danoah.com/2010/10/worthless-women-and-men-who-make-them.html
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