Ah-ha! Just as I suspected. A fool awaits a mouthful where he received one before. You come back to me nearly in tears, my poor and helpless victim of chance. I had such high hopes for you, but it seems that they have been all but dashed to the rock candy of our salted seas. Nevertheless, I have thoroughly enjoyed myself in viewing your fruitless attempts. It is such a sad case that I have found myself with a deep bond with the junior demon attempting to destroy me.
Now you must consider several other points of interest before you completely give yourself up to the dastardly hands of Fate. What do you do when the patient refuses to see or cannot see the truth even if it hits him squarely in the face? This is a great obstacle which you have not even begun to consider. �Wherefore art thou Romeo?� is not a question that comes to this creature’s mind. He asks no questions and expects no answers. If he doesn't think he’s wrong then how can he possibly change, for better or for worse? How do you fight a personality that argues for the sake of arguing, and who can convince Mahatma Gandhi into breaking a fast? Once again I have pondered these questions through the years of undulating, uneasiness that have pervaded my existence. You must convince this character that he is completely right or that he is completely wrong, or even better, both! Try to force him into making statements that will prove inevitably false and that he will have to see as false. Force him to act in ways contrary to his thoughts. If his actions and his thoughts do not coincide, perhaps his indestructible will may begin to crumble. I realize that this is a tall order, but you are up to the task.
Create illusions that appear to hold true but then turn them inside out. Do not let this toad sit still for even a moment. Continually bombard his insignificant mind with the far-reaching depths of eternity. Ask him if he thinks he knows the truth about the future and such things which any human cannot possibly consider. Make him read a speech by Adolf Hitler followed immediately by one from Martin Luther King Jr. Belief is good if it is in Us, bad if it is in Them, but even worse if it is in a patient’s self. Unbelief is good if it is in Them, bad if it is in Us, but even worse if a patient doesn’t believe in it. Such is our case at the present. He doesn’t see any falsity, only truth, and a truth so strong in himself, that neither Us nor the Enemy has been able to crack him. Ask him to solve Zenon’s paradox or to explain Einstein’s Theory of Relativity or resolve one of the Millenium Problems. When he inevitably fails, make him concede his losses. Teach him to gamble and to gamble poorly. Make him bet on bad cards and when he loses all his money tell him that he has succeeded. Teach him to invest in the stock market. Let him compile millions, but then take it all away. Show him no mercy. Destroy his will and his mind. We must have him in our wing of the universe. This battle is too costly to lose. If we succeed in gaining access to his mind, the secrets contained therein will certainly bring us millions of new followers.
Your always exorbitantly lavished and exacerbated civil servant of the Underworld,
Darwin Luther
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