Both Uses of
spontaneous
in
The Screwtape Letters
- In reaction against that, he may be persuaded to aim at something entirely spontaneous, inward, informal, and unregularised; and what this will actually mean to a beginner will be an effort to produce in himself a vaguely devotional mood in which real concentration of will and intelligence have no part.†
Chpt 4 *spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- As a result, a woman who is quite far gone in the Enemy's service will make a nuisance of herself on a larger scale than any man except those whom Our Father has dominated completely; and, conversely, a man will live long in the Enemy's camp before he undertakes as much spontaneous work to please others as a quite ordinary woman may do every day.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
happening naturally, suddenly, or without outside planning or action