FACT OF THE DAY: Image and Imagination, the last book with previously unpublished material from Lewis was released in November, 2013. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we do when we imagine, then, is to suppose (with or without the support of explicit images) a reshuffling of universals taken from the actual world.” Image and Imagination …
Month: November 2017
CSL Daily 11/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on Nov. 1, 1948 in Punch (Almanac). Revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion …
CSL Daily 11/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first published on Nov. 18, 1956 in The New York Times Book Review. HEAR A PODCAST ABOUT THIS ESSAY – All About Jack episode – Essay Chat with Dr. Holly Ordway – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book worth reading …
CSL Daily 11/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published on Nov. 17, 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you …
CSL Daily 11/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On November 16, 1966 the US edition of Letters of C.S. Lewis came out. It was edited, with a memoir by W.H. Lewis, his brother. It was released in the UK on April 18 of the same year. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The remarkable thing about his literary career is …
CSL Daily 11/15/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First …
CSL Daily 11/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released on Nov. 14, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a man …
CSL Daily 11/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on Nov. 13, 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in …
CSL Daily 11/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half …
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UPDATED (8/25/18) – The Misquotable C.S. Lewis is my book that examines 75 quotations attributed to Lewis that I caution you not to share. Some are falsely attributed to him, others are paraphrases of his words, and a few have context issues. Don’t share a quote attributed to Lewis unless you can confirm he wrote it and the meaning …