XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   i suppose...  the word [chastity]  is still used today in Am.English   
   the same way C.S.Lewis used it here.   
      
      
            —————————————   from  C.S.Lewis, [Mere   
   Christianity] (1952 ?)   
      
      
     People often misunderstand what psychology teaches about   
   ‘repressions’. It teaches us that ‘repressed’ sex is dangerous.   
      
   But ‘repressed’ is here a technical term:     it does not mean   
   ‘suppressed’ in the sense of ‘denied’ or ‘resisted’.   
      
   A repressed desire or thought is one which has been thrust into the   
   subconscious (usually at a very early age) and can now come before the   
   mind only in a disguised and unrecognisable form.   
      
   Repressed sexuality does not appear to the patient to be sexuality at   
   all. When an adolescent or an adult is engaged in resisting a conscious   
   desire, he is not dealing with a repression nor is he in the least   
   danger of creating a repression.   
      
   On the contrary, those who are seriously attempting chastity are more   
   conscious, and soon know a great deal more about their own sexuality   
   than anyone else.   
      
   They come to know their desires as    Wellington knew Napoleon, or as   
   Sherlock Holmes knew Moriarty;   as a rat-catcher knows rats or a   
   plumber knows about leaky pipes.   
      
   Virtue  ———even attempted virtue——— brings light; indulgence   
   brings fog.   
      
      
               —————————————   from  C.S.Lewis, [Mere   
   Christianity] (1952 ?)   
      
      
   obPuzzle -- Could he have used better analogy  ... than ... comparing   
                               sex to  Moriarty, rats, and leaky pipes?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)