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 (First published in Image and Imagination in November, 2013) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Image and Imagination, the last book with previously …
Month: November 2020
CSL Daily 11/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said (First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first …
CSL Daily 11/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.” “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” (First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” …
CSL Daily 11/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The remarkable thing about [my brother’s] career is that it never occurred to him until a relatively late date that his great achievement would be prose.” Letters of C.S. Lewis – Memoir by W. H. Lewis (US edition published 11/16/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On November 16, 1966 the US edition …
CSL Daily 11/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Suggests:) “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of …
CSL Daily 11/14/20
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 needs some virtue.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The …
[PODCAST] Essay Chat #20 – Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem? (Sarah Waters)
“Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?” is an essay from the academic side of C.S. Lewis. However, even if you are less interested in this type of material, you will still find some useful information from what he discusses. This is part of an occasional podcast series of “essay chats.” Dr. Sarah Waters speaks with …
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CSL Daily 11/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proclaims:) “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 him.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII (First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road …
Master List of Essay Chat Podcasts
Here’s a master list of all my “essay chat” podcasts. Below is a list of the essay title on the left and then the guest on the right. Notice that below the list is an embedded link that should display the most recent podcasts overall. “Sometimes Fairy Stories…” Holly Ordway “The Necessity of Chivalry” Bruce Johnson …
CSL Daily 11/12/20
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 goes on, ‘For it is God who worketh in you’— which looks as if God did everything and we nothing.” Faith (Given as a talk on …