Here's a place to discuss all things Screwtape (related to CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast). This could include your favourite quotes or concepts, thoughts on the premise or anything else that interests you about the topic.

I was a little surprised we don't have this topic already, though there are some mentions of Screwtape elsewhere. Yesterday, I was reminded about the quote given below which I  shared on FB twelve years ago when I first read it. (It's kind of ironic, as it gives a pretty good description of what Facebook is like, even more so these days). I  have already shared it in the Bird&Baby chat thread, but then thought The Letters deserved their own topic.

If you are not familiar with the premise, they are a series of satirical fictional letters from a demon called Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood instructing him how to best guide/tempt a man away from God. The "he" in the quote refers to the man ("patient") Wormwood has been assigned to be tempted. (I'll add in the reference to the chapter it's from once I can get to my copy).

As this condition becomes more fully established, you will be gradually freed from the tiresome business of providing Pleasures as temptations....You no longer need a good book, which he really likes, to keep him from his prayers or his work or his sleep; a column of advertisements in yesterday's paper will do. You can make him waste his time not only in conversation he enjoys with people whom he likes, but in conversations with those he cares nothing about on subjects that bore him. You can make him do nothing at all for long periods...As one of my own patients said on his arrival down here, "I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked".