Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 14th

FACT OF THE DAY:

Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.”

The Screwtape Letters XI
(Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Puddleglum is based on what person is Lewis’s life?

Answer (Click to SEE)
His pessimistic gardener, Fred Paxford