Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis Nursing General CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACE

CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACE

In order to survive

soothe ANGER

hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow

As these four women are about to discover

Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis Nursing General CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACEIn September 1947, after reading C. S. Lewiss The Screwtape Letters in Italian, Fr. (now St.) Giovanni Calabria was moved to write the author, but he knew no English and assumed (rightly) that Lewis knew no Italian. So he wrote his letter in Latin, hoping that, as a classicist, Lewis would know Latin. Therein began a correspondence that was to outlive Fr. Calabria himself (he died in December 1954, and was succeeded in correspondence by Fr. Luigi