“Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.”
Preface to English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Written 10/7/1953)
Month: October 2013
FACT: October 7, 2013
Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day in 1953.
QUIZ: October 7, 2013
More than half of the Narnia books were published in the U.S. for the first time in October in the U.S.; which ones are they?
QUOTE: October 6, 2013
“There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to be true.”
Horrid Red Things
(Published in Church of England Newspaper on 10/6/1944)
QUIZ: October 6, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Where we find ______ _______ we may always expect that a discovery awaits us.”
FACT: October 6, 2013
“Horrid Red Things” was published today in Church of England Newspaper in 1944. It was adapted in the book Miracles.
FACT: October 5, 2013
On this date in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month.
QUIZ: October 5, 2013
What book that is a part of Mere Christianity was published this month (in what year)?
QUOTE: October 5, 2013
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”
Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter three from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUOTE: October 4, 2013
“When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.”
Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter three from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)