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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“On the Reading of Old Books” – an essay that was first published as the preface to a book by his friend Sister Penelope from 1944.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

On the Reading of Old Books
(Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“If nothing is certainly right, then of course it follows that ___ ___ ___ ___ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (2/18) in 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.”

The Seeing Eye
(Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis went back to the BBC this month in 1949 to record what talk that aired the same day of its recording?
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CSL Book Club (Allyson Wieland)

William OFlaherty All About Jack

The following is a repeat of a short interview I did in 2012 about a website called “CSL Book Club.” Allyson Wieland created the site to freely provide copies of study questions she created for her local C.S. Lewis group. Since the interview I also had her on the show for my occasional “Essay Chat” series.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 17th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Cosmic Trilogy (a collection of all three Sci-Fi books) was released in February, 1990.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

The Practical Conclusion
(BBC talk given on 2/15/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the most famous king of Archenland?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 16th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

(Click “Read More” to SEE Answer)FACT OF THE DAY:

71 years ago today (2/16/1943) The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S., but was released in the UK in 1942
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”

The Screwtape Letters
(Released in the U.S. on 2/16/1943)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a ____ ____ ____ in the spectrum.
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Who Drew Narnia (CSLM-42)

William OFlaherty CSL Minute, Special Feature

Who illustrated The Chronicles of Narnia and how was the person selected?

If you love the stories about Narnia, you probably also greatly admire the illustrations found in the books. Pauline Baynes is the only one who drew them and we have J.R.R. Tolkien to thank in part for them. It was after Lewis saw the pictures she created for Farmer Giles, one of Tolkien’s books, that Lewis picked her.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The final radio talk from the second BBC series was given today (2/15) in 1942. It is now known as “The Practical Conclusion.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be like or what we should have expected it to be like.”

The Practical Conclusion
(BBC talk given on 2/15/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book that was a collection of essays that were selected by Lewis were published in what year this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 14th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

A Grief Observed was published for the first time in the US today (14th) in 1963, after being released in the UK on 9/29/1961. Also paperbacks of The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity (both 1955) in the UK.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.”

A Grief Observed
(Published in the US on 2/14/1963)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What famous fictional book was published twice this month a year apart?
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Joel Heck’s Lewis Site

William OFlaherty Resource Spotlight

There are many individuals who have a website devoted to C.S. Lewis. Some are actually by Lewis scholars, such as the one being featured today. It is by Joel Heck, who is Professor of Theology at Concordia University Texas. It was not difficult deciding whether or not to spotlight this one. While it may contain too many details for the average Lewis reader, Heck’s Chronologically Lewis has been an invaluable resource for me. It contains nearly a day-to-day summary of Lewis’s entire life. That resource is free, but he does have a simpler desktop any-year calendar you can buy.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

This month in 1963 “Onward Christian Spacemen” was published in Show. Lewis disliked the title and it is now known as “The Seeing Eye.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“God…is related to the universe more as an author is related to a play than as one object in the universe is related to another.”

The Seeing Eye
(Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“They say Aslan is on the move – perhaps has already landed.”
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