Category: Daily Lewis

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 7th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Silver Chair was first published in the UK on this date (9/7) in 1953.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.”

The Silver Chair
(Published 9/7/1953)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 6th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Horse and His Boy was published today (9/6) in 1954. It was the fifth published book.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.”

The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What was Lewis’s last major critical (professional) book published before his death?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 5th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories edited by Walter Hooper was released today (9/5) in 1966. All the stories are also in The Dark Tower.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.”

On Stories
(Published in Of Other Worlds on 9/5/1966)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Aside from the Narnia books, how many fictional books were published by Lewis in his lifetime (excluding poetry)?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (9/4) in 1943 “My First School” was printed in Time and Tide as “Notes on the Way.” Reprinted in Present Concerns.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Only children quarrel about whether pancakes are nice or nasty, but grown men quarrel about whether an act is right or wrong.”

Answers to Listeners’ Question transcript
(BBC Broadcast from 9/3/1941 known as “Some Objections” in Broadcast Talks)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How many languages has the Chronicles of Narnia been translated into?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 3rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard” was first published today (9/3) in 1960 in Time and Tide as “Haggard Rides Again.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts: as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it. ”

Haggard Rides Again
(Published in Time and Tide on 9/3/1960)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote: “Stagnation, my dear boy, what is more soul destroying than stagnation?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 2nd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Condemned” is a poem first published as “Under Sentence” on September 7, 1945 in The Spectator.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way.. . .”

Letter to Mrs. Lockley on 9/2/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How old was Lewis when his first book was published and what was it?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 1st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“God in the Dock” was published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September ’48 in Lumen Vitae.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock.”

Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers
(Published in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What two Narnia books were released this month a year apart almost to the day?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 31st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes.

Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will…then we may take it it is worth paying.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 30th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.”

The Screwtape Letters XVIII
(Published in The Guardian on 8/29/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Prior to Letters to Malcolm being published three of the chapters were published under what title and why?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 29th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s parents, Albert and Florence (Flora) were married at St. Mark’s Church on this day (8/29) in 1894.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’
‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’
‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director.
‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.’

That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What final book from a fictional series was published this month?
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