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I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
The Screwtape Letters, Preface to the 1961 edition (1961)

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The Screwtape Letters, Preface to the 1961 edition (1961) - Lewis, C.S. | WIST Quotations

I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we…

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Charnock Jul 28, 2025

While I did not get the Bok Badge (Rage) and also the Dr Who Shop on the BBC has no idea about Dr Who (Confused Exasperation) I did just get a picture disk vinyl of the theme from the Devil Rides Out which is of the Goat of Mendes, who represents the devil himself in the film. Notably he is terrified of having things thrown at him and headlamps, so I think he might be worried about Belfast. Possible satanic conflict is why you need to have the right dip on your headlamps in the MOT.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 7, 2025

A quotation from Shakespeare

ARIEL:                                 Not a soul
   But felt a fever of the mad, and played
   Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
   Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
   Then all afire with me. The King’s son, Ferdinand,
   With hair up-staring — then like reeds, not hair —
   Was the first man that leaped; cried “Hell is empty,
   And all the devils are here.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Tempest, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 246ff (1.2.246-253) (1611)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 7, 2023

A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

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So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn’t him.
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Good Omens, "Saturday" (1990) [with Neil Gaiman] - Pratchett, Terry | WIST Quotations

So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him.

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