FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (Oct. 29) in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became  Lewis’s first academic title.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.”

The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)