FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave his first ever lecture on Oct. 14, 1924. It was called “The Good, Its Position among Values.” Only four attended. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction; they can be …
Month: October 2017
CSL Daily 10/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 13, 1961 An Experiment in Criticism was published; while a professional title by Lewis it is more readable than others. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing can deceive unless it bears a plausible resemblance to reality.” An Experiment in Criticism (Published 10/13/1961)
CSL Daily 10/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: A second edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress was published in October, 1935 by Sheed & Ward. The first publisher was J.M. Dent in 1933. The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition officially came out on Oct. 12, 2014. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the …
CSL Daily 10/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given on Oct. 11, 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that …
CSL Daily 10/10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 10, 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well …
CSL Daily 10/09/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men …
CSL Daily 10/08/17
FACT OF THE DAY: A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published Oct. 8, in 1942. Lewis adapted it from the 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.” A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ (Published 10/8/1942)
CSL Daily 10/07/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on Oct. 7, 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.” Preface to English Literature in the …
CSL Daily 10/06/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published on Oct. 6, 1944 in Church of England Newspaper. It was adapted in the book Miracles. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to …
CSL Daily 10/05/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast …