An e-mail:
In the corner this morning you comment that the Iraq child-killers could be eternally punished with the image of the mangled bodies forever before them.
One problem: they’d enjoy that.
Of course, if you take C.S. Lewis’s view of things (as I do), the eternal punishment of any wicked feeling is probably just to be left free to keep eternally feeling it. The demonic pleasure the killer would take in the eternal contemplation of his handiwork would be its own punishment – nothing makes a man more miserable than the indulgence of that kind of pleasure.