Name the source of this quote:
“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.”
FACT: August 31, 2013
The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.
QUOTE: August 31, 2013
[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
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/31/1958)
QUIZ: August 31, 2013
Prior to Letters to Malcolm being published three of the chapters were published under what title and why?
QUIZ: August 30, 2013
What is the name of the creatures that are like angels in Lewis’ science fiction trilogy?
FACT: August 30, 2013
The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters.
QUOTE: August 30, 2013
“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
(first published in The Guardian on 8/29/1941)
QUOTE: August 29, 2013
“‘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)
QUIZ: August 29, 2013
How many Earth years do the Chronicle of Narnia stories cover?
FACT: August 29, 2013
Lewis’s parents, Albert and Florence (Flora) were married at St. Mark’s Church on this day in 1894.