Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/11

FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Sailing of the Ark” was published on this day (8/11) in 1948 in Punch. Revised and retitled “The Late Passenger” in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”

The Screwtape Letters XV
(Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is this quote found? “There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: as on Earth.” (from The Screwtape Letters (preface)