I was struck today by this week’s Time Magazine Inbox.  Referencing an article about our corporate/economic meltdown, Vicky Brago writes:

The villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that “the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but … in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent.

To be able to write like C. S. Lewis……  You can feel, see – almost touch – the cold & seductive evil described in those words.   There is a reason why we read the “classics”.