FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Sailing of the Ark” was published on this day (Aug. 11) in 1948 in Punch. Revised and re-titled “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)