FACT OF THE DAY:

The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today (8/7) in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven. “

Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What did Lewis do this month that made the publication of the Narnia books possible?

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: waste on jokes.” from The Last Battle