Which Narnia book is the following passage from:
“…No dog I ever knew, least of all a talking dog of Narnia, likes to be called a ‘good little doggie’ then.”
Month: August 2013
FACT: August 22, 2013
The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way.
QUOTE: August 22, 2013
“One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVII
(first published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941)
EC19 – “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (with Brenton Dickieson)
The following part of an occasional series where I chat with a Lewis expert about one of his shorter works. This is with Brenton Dickieson, who maintains a popular blog called “A Pilgrim in Narnia.” The essay we examine is “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” which can be found in On Stories.
QUOTE: August 21, 2013
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
FACT: August 21, 2013
“The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue of Punch.
QUIZ: August 21, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (6 words):
“Christ died for men precisely because _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____; to make them worth it.”
QUIZ: August 20, 2013
Lewis did something “great” in his early life this month; what was it?
QUOTE: August 20, 2013
“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe-no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.”
“Materialism or Religion”
(Broadcast on BBC from 8/20/1941; known as “What Lies Behind the Law” in Mere Christianity)
FACT: August 20, 2013
The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion”