FACT OF THE DAY: On 12/4/1962 an informal conversation between Lewis, Kingsley Amis and Brian Aldiss was recorded and later published as “Unreal Estates.” – – – 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 …

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FACT OF THE DAY: “Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus” is a satirical piece by Lewis published in the December 4, 1954 issue of Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the …

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FACT OF THE DAY: Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published today in 1969. – – – 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 …

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FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today in 1969. The UK version came out 3/4/68. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler …

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FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures today in 1941 on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not allowed …

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FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (12/1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 4 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than …

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FACT OF THE DAY: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (11/30) in the US in 1970. It was edited by Walter Hooper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think …

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FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing …

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FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – 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 …

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