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December 27, 2025 Paid subscribers

A Very Patient Devil

A Screwtape Reflection on Technology, Time, and the Formation of the Modern Soul

My dear Wormwood,

You asked me to explain—slowly this time—why I laughed when the wager was accepted.

It wasn’t mockery. It was recognition.

We had been granted what we always want: time. Not just years, but enough time to make the unnatural feel inevitable. Enough time to train three generations. Enough time that by the end, they wouldn’t even remember what they’d lost.

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