“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945
FACT: August 16, 2013
The book of the Sci-Fi trilogy, That Hideous Strength, was published today (8/16) in 1945.
QUIZ: August 16, 2013
What fictional book was published this month under another name than when published ten years before?
QUOTE: August 15, 2013
[Screwtape Advises:] “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that ‘suits’ him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVI
(first published in The Guardian on 8/15/1941)
FACT: August 15, 2013
A previously unpublished essay by Lewis was the lead title piece in Christian Reunion published today in 1990.
QUIZ: August 15, 2013
What did Lewis do this month that made the publication of the Narnia books possible?
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QUIZ: August 14, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words): “There is wishful thinking in Hell as well _____ _____ _____ .”
QUOTE: August 14, 2013
“We must use the talent we have, not the talents we haven’t.” Letter to Cynthia Donnelly (from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/14/1954)
FACT: August 14, 2013
Voyage to Venus by C.S. Lewis was published today in 1953. It is the same book as Perelandra from 1943 (2nd of Sci-Fi trilogy).