Month: December 2013

Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not allowed to exclude all others.”

Behind the Scenes
(Published in Time and Tide on 12/1/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Glimfeather and what is a key thing he does to the children in The Silver Chair?
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RETROSPECTIVE: December 1st – 10th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect

Highlights for the first third of December (1st – 10th) include: The first book in the US collecting Lewis quotes, a collection of essays related to his profession and a book edited by Lewis focused on Charles Williams.

A Mind AwakeIn today’s world it’s not difficult to find a quote attributed to C.S. Lewis. Searching online provides a wide variety of quotations, but not all are actually things Lewis said (which will be the topic of an article I’ll be publishing in 2014). In the “old days” you had to rely on a much more reliable resource known as a book. The first of these actually came out in early 1968 in the UK, but the US version wasn’t published until this month on the 3rd in 1969. A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis is actually more than a collection of quotes, as some of the selections are lengthier. Also unlike the more recent The Quotable Lewis, which is arranged in alphabetical order, A Mind Awake is divided into ten major topics that has three to five subtopics each.

Special Gifts from Father Christmas (CSLM-34)

William OFlaherty CSL Minute

Everyone likes gifts at Christmas, but the Pevensie children didn’t know how useful certain presents would be.

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Narnia is under a spell that makes it always winter, but never Christmas. Aslan’s appearance breaks the spell, but as this is happening Peter, Susan and Lucy become part of an unusual scene. Father Christmas shows up to greet them and provide gifts.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (12/1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 4 of The Great Divorce.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV
(Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately; anyway, you can’t get the best out of it.”
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