The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems.
Month: August 2013
Quiz: August 6, 2013
What famous ship was built in Belfast where Lewis grew up?
Quote: August 6, 2013
“Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are.”
Common Decency
(BBC Broadcast on 8/6/1941; “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity)
Fact: August 6, 2013
“Common Decency,” the first BBC broadcast by Lewis was given today (8/6) in 1941. It is better known as “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity.
Quiz: August 5, 2013
Which of the Narnia books did Lewis NOT dedicated to anyone?
Fact: August 5, 2013
Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Quote: August 5, 2013
“A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Quote: August 4, 2013
[Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Fact: August 4, 2013
Today in 1922 Lewis earned a first class (highest honors) degree in Literae Humaniores (“Greats”) from Oxford.
Quiz: August 4, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it _____ _____ _____ _____ .”