Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published today in 1955.
Month: September 2013
QUIZ: September 18, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from _____ ______ _____ _____ .”
QUOTE: September 18, 2013
“The value given ti the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
Religion: Reality or Substitute?
(Published in September-October, 1941 issue of World Dominion)
FACT: September 18, 2013
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized on the BBC in six weekly installments on this date in 1959.
QUOTE: September 17, 2013
“The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.”
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Published 9/16/1954)
FACT: September 17, 2013
“The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems.
QUIZ: September 17, 2013
Before Narnia and Mere Christianity Lewis landed on the cover of what magazine?
QUOTE: September 16, 2013
“The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that an occasional defiance of the rule, resulting in a shock, can give pleasure; a pleasure rich in tragic or comic possibilities. Indeed one of the purposes for which the rule exists is that it may sometimes be broken.”
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Published 9/16/1954)
QUIZ: September 16, 2013
Besides reading the Chronicles of Narnia in the order they were published, how many other “orders” can you read the series?
FACT: September 16, 2013
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by Lewis was published today (9/16) in 1954. (It was nearly 30 years in the making)