Highlights for August 1-11 include: Lewis’s first time ever on the radio, earning of a second First at Oxford and two more letters from Screwtape.
In one sense not a lot of events occurred in Lewis’s life over the years during the first week and a half in August; but then the most significant from this period is likely among the highest points in his entire life. It was on the 6th in 1941 that he stood before a microphone to
“Avoid introspection in prayer—I mean not to watch one’s own mind to see if it is in the right frame, but always to turn the attention outwards to God.”
Letter to Dr. F. Morgan Roberts
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 7/31/1954)
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“So often, whether for good or ill, one’s inner state seems to have so little connection _____ _____ _____ .”
Before Lewis’s death the book A Grief Observed was not credited to him, but N.W. Clerk. It first came out in 1961.
“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself.”
The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
The U.S. edition of what book was published this month in 1960?
“Epitaph” is a poem published today (7/30) in 1948 in The Spectator. Revised and retitled as “Epigrams and Epitaphs” in Poems.
“We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, intrinsically truer or better than looking along. One must look both along and at everything.”
Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph 7/17/1945)
“Quam Bene Saturno,” Lewis’s first published poem came out in July, 1913 (when he was just 14). It was in Cherbourg School Magazine.
Which of the Narnia books is dedicated to a family?
