FACT OF THE DAY: Today (Sept. 25) in 1929 Lewis’s father (Albert) died. His financial support was vital to Lewis getting his degrees at Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXI (First published in The Guardian on 9/19/1941)
CSL Daily 9/24
FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938)
CSL Daily 9/23
FACT OF THE DAY: Out of the Silent Planet was first published on this day (9/23) in 1938. It was his second fictional story for Lewis as a Christian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published …
CSL Daily 9/22
FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (Sept. 22) in 1944 “The Death of Words” was published in The Spectator. It was republished in On Stories. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if …
CSL Daily 9/21
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sermon and the Lunch” was first published on this date (Sept. 21) in 1945 in Church of England Newspaper. It’s now in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say (and almost with pride) that …
CSL Daily 9/20
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour, the third BBC series for Lewis began on this day (Sept. 20) in 1942. The first talk was “The Three Parts of Morality.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things . …
CSL Daily 9/19
FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published today (Sept. 19) in 1955. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” …
CSL Daily 9/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.” English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Published 9/16/1954)
CSL Daily 9/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized on the BBC in six weekly installments on this date (Sept. 18) in 1959. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy …
CSL Daily 9/16
FACT OF THE DAY: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by Lewis was published today (Sept. 16) in 1954. (It was nearly 30 years in the making). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that …