CSL Daily 06/30/18

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s book review of “The Allegory of the ‘Faerie Queen’” was published in the June 11, 1960 issue of The Cambridge Review. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I suppose (tho’ it seems a hard saying) we should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler…But don’t think I don’t know how …

CSL Daily 06/28/18

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on June 28, 1946. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, …

CSL Daily 06/27/18

FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out on June 27, 1963 (first published May 2, 1955). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.” First and Second Things (Published in Time and …

CSL Daily 06/26/18

FACT OF THE DAY: First and Second Things was first published June 27, 1942 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults …

CSL Daily 06/24/18

FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out on June 24, 1965 (first published September 7, 1953).  – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …

CSL Daily 06/23/18

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948  and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)   More Details about The Misquotable …

CSL Daily 06/21/18

 FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from Lewis was published in the June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire …