QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V (Published in The Guardian on 12/8/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published on Dec. 8, 1944 in The Guardian. This eventually became part of …
CSL Daily 12/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Not all kinds of peace are compatible with all kinds of goodwill, nor do all those who say “Peace, peace” inherit the blessing promised to the peacemakers.” Delinquents in the Snow (Published 12/7/57 in Time and Tide – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Delinquents in the Snow” is an article …
CSL Daily 12/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book’s no good to me until I’ve read it two or three times.” Unreal Estates (First recorded on 12/4/62 and later published after his death) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Dec. 4, 1962 an informal conversation between Lewis, Kingsley Amis and Brian Aldiss was recorded and …
CSL Daily 12/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work.” A Note on Jane Austen (Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus” is a satirical piece by …
CSL Daily 12/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Bible thus considered, for good or ill, as a single book, has been read for almost every purpose more diligently than for literary pleasure.” The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version (Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on Dec. 4, 1969) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Selected Literary Essays, edited …
CSL Daily 12/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?” (Published in A Mind Awake; from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken on 12/23/1950 found in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. …
CSL Daily 12/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not allowed to exclude all others.” Behind the Scenes (Published in Time and Tide on 12/1/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures on Dec. 2, 1941 on Paradise Lost that …
CSL Daily 12/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV (Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes …
CSL Daily 11/29/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.” De Descriptione Temporum (Inaugural lecture given by Lewis on 11/29/54) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was …
CSL Daily 11/28/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.” The Screwtape Letters – XXXI (First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from …