FACT OF THE DAY:
“Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?” is the Annual Shakespeare Lecture Lewis gave on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?
(Lecture given on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What was unusual about a wound Lewis got this month (in what year)?
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The following is a repeat of my single interview I did with Dr. Michael Ward two years about The Narnia Code. This chat also gives a good general introduction to Planet Narnia and the DVD also called The Narnia Code. He will be one of the special guest at the 2014 Taylor Colloquium.
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is asleep in The Silver Chair but wakes up in The Last Battle?
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Highlights for the final third of April (20th – 30th) include: Publication of Perelandra, a talk “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” and Lewis’s first marriage to Joy Davidman.
Before Lewis gain fame from a series of books about a place called Narnia, he had written a trilogy that had a science fiction theme. The second of those books, Perelandra, came out on the 20th in 1943. In it we take a trip to Venus with the main character, Ransom and follow his quest to save that world from impending corruption. In the U.S. it wasn’t released until a year later on the 11th. In 1953 a paperback version came out under the title Voyage to Venus. On some occasions in his life Lewis considered this novel to be his best (this was also said of Till We Have Faces). Perelandra was dedicated “To Some Ladies at Wantage,” as in Wantage,
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (4/20) is the 71st anniversary of the publication of Perelandra; it tells of adventures in Venus.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.”
Perelandra
(Published 4/20/1943)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
” _____ _____ responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Christian Behaviour was first published on this day (4/19) in 1943. It is better known for being Book 3 of Mere Christianity.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Hope is…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.”
Christian Behaviour
(Published 4/19/1943)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What article by Lewis was published this month had the title “Outer Space” in it that was later re-titled?
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C.S. Lewis made comments on the Incarnation and Resurrection in several writings over the years. Previous on my C.S. Lewis Minute blog I shared this post and felt there were those who probably hadn’t seen it there, and so it would be useful to add it here.
From “Christianity and Literature” (found in Christian Reflections):
To believe in the Incarnation at all is to believe that every mode of human excellence is implicit in His [Jesus’] historical human character. . . . But if all had been developed, the limitations of a single human life would have been transcended and he would not have been a man; therefore all excellences save the spiritual remained in varying degrees implicit.
FACT OF THE DAY:
Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited, with a Memoir by Warren Lewis was first published today (4/18) in 1966. Originally it began as a biography.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.”
Letter to Sister Penelope
(First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
To whom did Lewis dedicate Till We Have Faces?
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I’m sure I could do a series of articles here about the C.S. Lewis Foundation website and not do justice in telling you about all the resources you can find that they have online. Beside their internet presence, they are known for hosting an event every other year called Oxbridge and they own and operate The Kilns, the home Lewis lived in for nearly half his life. While some of the navigational subsections are duplicated under the main sections, as noted, they still have a good deal of material online.
FACT OF THE DAY:
Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord. ”
Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book has the most chapters in it?
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