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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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Significance of "further up and further in"?

In C.S. Lewis's Narnia grand finale, The Last Battle, one chapter is entitled "Further Up and Further In", and this phrase is repeated a great many times by various characters: "Then [...
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