FACT OF THE DAY:
First paperback edition of The Last Battle came out today (1/30) in 1964. It was published as ‘Puffin Books’ by Penguin Books Ltd.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“One cannot be too careful: one must try to hold fast to one’s duties (I wish I did) which are the prose of the spiritual life and not learn to depend too much on these delightful moments.”
Letter to Arthur Greeves on 1/30/1930
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)
That’s a great quote above. Many ills of the world today have to do with people trying to make all their lives a climax and not focusing on all the character moments that give meaning to the climax.
Is sad that one always looks for the future, yet does nothing in the present to get there, and dismisses the past like it was nothing when life’s greatest inspirations come from what you have experienced…