“Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th) to a group of scientists at the Zoological Laboratory in Cambridge.
Month: July 2013
Quote: July 13, 2013
“Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not fair’ before you can say Jack Robinson.”
Broadcast Talks (Part 1, Chapter 1)
(Published 7/13/1942
Quiz: July 13, 2013
Two dozens poems by Lewis were published in Punch, but only one essay. That essay came out during the month of July; what was the title?
Fact: July 13, 2013
Broadcast Talks was first released in the U.K. on this date in 1942, containing the initial two radio series on the BBC.
It was also on this day in 1960 that Joy Davidman, Lewis’s wife died, after losing her battle with cancer.
Other Demons in Screwtape (CSLM-20)
If C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is one of your favorites you probably know quite a few names of the devils mentioned in that book.
Quote: July 12, 2013
“Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy [God].”
The Screwtape Letters – XI
(first published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)
Fact: July 12, 2013
First and Second Things is an essay collection released on July 11, 1985 that actually contains material found in God in the Dock.
Quiz: July 12, 2013
What was the name of the person who was going to be sent where Ransom ended up going in Out of the Silent Planet?
Quote: July 11, 2013
“I don’t believe that good work is ever done in a hurry.”
Letter to Arthur Greeves
(from Collected Letters, Volume 1 on 7/11/1916)
Fact: July 11, 2013
The eleventh letter from Screwtape was published on this date in The Guardian in 1941. It dealt with the four causes of laughter.