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Why 'The Screwtape Letters' Feels Uncomfortably Modern
- Culture, Literature
- January 6, 2026

In the autumn of 1900, Oscar Booz, a 17-year-old student at West Point military academy, was hazed by fellow cadets. Tabasco sauce was forced down his throat on three different occasions, and he was coerced into boxing a much larger student who savagely beat him. After the fight, he became ill, moved home and died.
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