FACT OF THE DAY: “Unreal Estates,” a transcript of an interview with Lewis and others was published in the March, 1965 edition of Encounter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” The Last Battle (said by Aslan) (Published on 3/19/1956)
CSL Daily 11/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s funeral was held on Nov. 26, 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service. An obituary for the NY Times was published the day before. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in …
CSL Daily 11/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was released on Nov. 21, 1941 in The Guardian. It was the next to last one. – – – 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, …
Essay Chat 19r – Screwtape Proposes a Toast (Brenton Dickieson)
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is an essay that is indirectly a follow-up to the successful book The Screwtape Letters. Brenton Dickieson joins William O’Flaherty for an essay chat on this insightful piece that Wormwood never got to hear. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1959 (see below for a link to read it …
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CSL Daily 3/14
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth of the final series of BBC talks, The Obstinate Toy Soldiers, was given by Lewis on this day (3/14) in 1944. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” The Obstinate Toy Soldiers (Initially a BBC broadcast …
Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #29
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. The only letter we have of Lewis commenting on James Forsyth’s Screwtape is to his publisher, Jocelyn Gibb (February 9, 1962). In it he …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #22
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” the follow-up essay from Lewis is about five times the length of the average letter from Screwtape. Learn more about my book, …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #8
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. The money Lewis was paid (£62) from The Guardian for the weekly publication of “The Screwtape Letters” was given to charity. Learn more about my book, …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.”
A World for Children
(First published 10/2/1937 in The Times Literary Supplement)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
“They smell battle, said ________, pointing at the birds. They know we’re preparing a feed for them.” Which character said this in which Narnia book?
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