Evil

I MEAN REPULSIVE
Did you ever get hooked by an author’s ability to describe a scene so graphically that it just grabs you and holds you by the throat? I find many of those kind of descriptions in the writings of C. S. Lewis. I was rereading The Great Divorce the other day and was struck by the descriptive power of the scene that describes one of the pitiable female ghosts who is visiting heaven on the bus from hell. This is my idea of powerful description: At last I came to the conclusion — incredible as it seemed — that she supposed herself still capable of attracting them and was trying to do so. She was a thing that had become incapable of conceiving conversation save as a means to that end. If a corpse already liquid with decay had arisen from the coffin, smeared its gums with lipstick and attempted a flirtation, the result could not have been more appalling. In the…