FACT OF THE DAY: “Prudery and Philology” was published on January 21, 1955 in The Spectator. It is available in the Present Concerns book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” The Weight of Glory (Published …
CSL Daily 01/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.” …
CSL Daily 01/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published January 19, 1945; it covered the first quarter of chapter nine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI (Published in The Guardian on …
CSL Daily 01/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Later known as “The Invasion,” Lewis’s second talk from his second BBC radio series was given on January 18, 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.” The Invasion (Second Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/18/1942)
CSL Daily 01/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s “The Efficacy of Prayer” essay appeared in the January issue of The Atlantic Monthly in 1959. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of properly trained parrots would serve as well.” The Efficacy of Prayer (Published in the January, 1959 issue …
CSL Daily 01/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Romantics” is a poem that was found in The New English Weekly on January 16, 1947, but is now know as “The Prudent Jailer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet …
CSL Daily 01/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Pan’s Purge,” a poem by Lewis was published January 15, 1947 in Punch; it’s now printed in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.” The Great Divorce (Published on 1/14/1946)
CSL Daily 01/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Great Divorce (complete book) was published on January 14, 1946. The installments were called “Who Goes Home? Or The Grand Divorce.” Here a podcast about the book in this episode from All About Jack. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: …
CSL Daily 01/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On January 13, 1919 Lewis returned to Oxford after being demobilized the previous month (WWI, of course). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Recently (although the outward condition of my life has not changed for the better) it has pleased God to pour into my soul great tranquillity – I …
CSL Daily 01/12/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published on January 12, 1945; it covered all of chapter eight. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X (Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945)