@deanduncan63Watched Emile de Antonio’s Joseph McCarthy documentary #PointofOrder. So compelling, so maddening to see Sen. McCarthy …
… drone on & on w’ such unrelenting, positively infernal insistence. In this he inadvertently echoes the devil figure, …
… the possessed Professor Weston, from C.S. Lewis’s Eden-parable, Perelandra (1943). Weston won’t let up, either. Listen: …
… “If the attack had been of some more violent kind it might have been easier to resist …
“… What chilled & almost cowed him [Ransom, the book’s protagonist] was the union of malice with something nearly childish …
“… For temptation, for blasphemy, for a whole battery of horrors, he was in some sort prepared: but hardly for this petty …
“… indefatigable nagging as of a nasty little boy at a preparatory school. He had full opportunity to learn …
“… the falsity of the maxim that the Prince of Darkness is a gentleman. Again & again he felt that a suave & subtle Mephistopheles …
“… with red cloak & rapier & a feather in his cap, or even a sombre tragic Satan out of Paradise Lost would have been a welcome release from the thing he was actually doomed to watch …
“… It was not like dealing with a wicked politician at all: it was much more like being set to guard an imbecile or a monkey or a very nasty child.”