“The Trouble with ‘X'” is an essay by Lewis first published in the August, 1948 issue of Bristol Diocesan Gazette.
Month: August 2013
QUIZ: August 25, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start _____ _____ _____ .”
QUOTE: August 25, 2013
“I find that I do not exist on my own, that I am under a law; that somebody or something wants me to behave in a certain way.”
“Materialism or Religion”
(Broadcast on BBC from 8/20/1941; known as “What Lies Behind the Law” in Mere Christianity)
FACT: August 24, 2013
Lewis’s mother, Flora had a short story called “The Princess Rosetta” published in The Household Journal in 1889.
QUIZ: August 24, 2013
Two articles came out in Time and Tide this month in the 1940’s. Can you name either?
QUOTE: August 24, 2013
“God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them – but only if the people will let Him.”
“The Trouble with ‘X'”
(First published August 1948 issue of Bristol Diocesan Gazette
QUOTE: August 23, 2013
“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
FACT: August 23, 2013
While today was Lewis’s father birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) died.
QUIZ: August 23, 2013
What final book from a fictional series was published this month?
RETRO: August 22nd – September 1st
Highlights for August 22nd – September 1st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.
As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton (Flora) Lewis died