The following is a revised piece from what I shared previously. It was on Oct. 31, 1941 that the 27th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. The following year it came out in the UK in the book The Screwtape Letters (1943 for the US). While there is no material directly related to Halloween in …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 31, 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us in the …
FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Jane Austen” was published in the October, 1954 issue of Essays in Criticism. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible.” A Note on Jane Austen (Published in the October, …
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 29, 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – 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 …
The following is part of a series exploring quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis that are questionable for one reason or another. As I near the publication of an untitled book on the subject, it is difficult to say how often I will post additional material (even though over 30 more quotes have been identified). That …
FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October, 1946 issue of Resistance. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter …
FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was released on Oct. 27, 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see …
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on Oct. 26, 1964. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Forgiveness (Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live on Oct. 25, 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.” The Great Sin …
FACT OF THE DAY: The 26th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 24, 1941 in The Guardian. The subtitle was “The Generous Conflict Illusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – The Generous …
