Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 3rd

FACT OF THE DAY:

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today in 1969. The UK version came out 3/4/68.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”

Quote as from Encounter with Light
(Published in A Mind Awake; from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken on 12/23/1950)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What lectures did Lewis give this month that later became a book?

Answer (Click to SEE)
On December 1-3, 1941 Lewis gave the Ballard Mathews lectures on Paradise Lost that became his book A Preface to Paradise Lost.