FACT OF THE DAY:

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published today (11/17) in 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.”

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II”
(First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What essay was published this month in what year (and what was the title) that talked about some of how Lewis came to write the Narnia stories?

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: from On The Reading of Old Books in God in the Dock (first published as Introduction to The Incarnation of the Word of God by St Athanasius (1944)