Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 10th

FACT OF THE DAY:

The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well known.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride
(First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book did Lewis review this month (and what year) that was about another author’s fictional work?

Answer (Click to SEE)
While an unsigned review at the time, on October 2, 1937, The Times Literary Supplement published Lewis’s review of The Hobbit.