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"The Screwtape Letters" (1942), a novel by C. S. Lewis. Use this tag with the [c-s-lewis] tag.

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Is there an in-universe explanation for the contradictory language and euphemisms used in *The Screwtape Letters*?

For example, terms like "the patient," "our Father below," and Screwtape's affectionate language towards Wormwood. It actually strikes me as oddly similar to the "doublethink&...
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