Category: Daily Lewis

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 22nd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

C.S. Lewis died on this date (11/22) in 1963, the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are “Real” while the spiritual elements are “subjective.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the title to the follow-up essay to The Screwtape Letters?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 21st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Screwtape Letters – XXX was released today (11/21) in 1941 in The Guardian. It was the next to last one.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What essay was published this month in what year (and what was the title) that talked about some of how Lewis came to write the Narnia stories?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 20th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Image and Imagination, the NEW book by Lewis is now available! Amazon gives 11/14 as the release date for UK and 11/18 for the US.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What we do when we imagine, then, is to suppose (with or without the support of explicit images) a reshuffling of universals taken from the actual world.”

Image and Imagination
(First published in Image and Imagination in November, 2013)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote): “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 19th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on 11/1/1948 in Punch (Almanac). Revised version is in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood.”

Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said
(First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Earlier this month Lewis gave the final talk to what series in what year (and what was the talk?)
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 18th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first published today (11/18) in 1956 in The New York Times Book Review.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”

Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said
(First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is the other animal that helps Shift in The Last Battle and what does he do?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 17th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published today (11/17) in 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.”

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II”
(First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote): “I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began ‘Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.'”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (11/16) in 1966 the US edition of Letters of C.S. Lewis came out. It was edited, with a memoir by W.H. Lewis, his brother.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The remarkable thing about his literary career is that it never occurred to him until a relatively late date that his great achievement would be prose.”

Letters of C.S. Lewis – Memoir by W. H. Lewis
(US edition published 11/16/1966)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Christian Behavior, the third series of talks on the BBC ended earlier this month in 1942; There are twelve chapters in the book version, but how many were actually on the radio?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 15th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On 11/14/1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXIX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

One fictional series ended this month and another began (in different years); what are they?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (11/14) in 1941 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXIX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What Narnia book was published for the first time in the US this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 13th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (11/13) in 1992.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is finding its place in him.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII
(First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be ______ _____ ______ ______ _______.”
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