Author: William OFlaherty

Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 21st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for your father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic.”

We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post 12/21-28/1963)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What non-fiction book did Lewis write that was not credited to him until after his death?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 20th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Letters to an American Lady was first released on December 19, 1967 and at the time the name of the lady wasn’t revealed.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even ten per cent of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?”

Letters to an American Lady – 8/1/1953
(Book was published on 12/19/1967)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

To whom are The Screwtape Letters written?To whom are The Screwtape Letters written?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (12/19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning.”

Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post on 12/19/1959)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book took Lewis the shortest time to complete and how long was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s review of A Lectionary of Christian Prose from the Second Century to the Twentieth Century was published in Theology, December ’39.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers? If the worst comes to the worst I’d sooner give them money for nothing and write it off as a charity.”

What Christmas Means to Me
(Published in Twentieth Century; December, 1957)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote: (five words):
“All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be ______ ____ _____ _____ _______ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 17th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“What Christmas Means to Me” was published in the December, 1957 issue of Twentieth Century magazine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has been forced upon us by the shopkeepers.”

What Christmas Means to Me
(Published in Twentieth Century; December, 1957)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What speech did Lewis give this month (in what year) at King’s College?
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On The Shoulders of Hobbits (Interview with Dr. Louis Markos)

William OFlaherty All About Jack

Dr. Louis Markos has written several books on C.S. Lewis and some have been highlighted here before (see list below). He is also one of the co-writers (with Darren Jacobs) of the forthcoming JACK & TOLLERS movie. Last year he released a book dealing with the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien AND C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. It’s called On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis. The following link is an interview William O’Flaherty did with him about this book.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 16th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.”

The Inner Ring
(Talk given on 12/14/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How old was Pauline Baynes when she first began to illustrate the Narnia books?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (12/15) in 1944 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are not innocent.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI
(Published in The Guardian on 12/15/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote (four words):
“____(1)____ is ____(2)____ with ___(3)____ ___(4)___: but not all things are connected by the short and straight roads we expected.”
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Podcast Recap – The Hobbit

William OFlaherty CSL Minute

I can’t image that any of you are not aware that this weekend marks the release of The Hobbit movie (part 2). So, it only seemed fitting to review some of the material I’ve previously done related to it. I believe these resources will help you better enjoy the book (and movie). In addition to what I’ve posted, I also selected a few additional places online that you should find useful. Since this post last year I had another author interview; meaning I’ve now done interviews with three different authors on this topic.