Journal of Inklings Studies (General Introduction)

Learn more about a publication that comes out twice a year. It’s called Journal of Inklings Studies and the founding editors, Dr. Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe recently joined William O’Flaherty to talk about it. This interview focuses on providing a general introduction to this scholar journal and highlights the latest issue (from October 2015), along with giving …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/29

FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/28

FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/26

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s funeral was held on this day (11/26) in 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists or …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/25

FACT OF THE DAY: Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/24

FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (11/24) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/23

FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …