FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (2/18) in 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/24
FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – QUIZ OF THE DAY: Complete the quote …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/23
FACT OF THE DAY: Out of the Silent Planet was first published on this day (9/23) in 1938. It was his second fictional story for Lewis as a Christian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/19
FACT OF THE DAY: What the Bird Said Early in the Year is a revised poem first published today (5/19) in 1938 as Chanson D’Aventure in The Oxford Magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (2/18) in 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, _____ _____ . Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Out of the Silent Planet was first published on this day (9/23) in 1938. It was his second fictional story for Lewis as a Christian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book dealing with events from Lewis’s own life came out this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 19th
FACT OF THE DAY:
What the Bird Said Early in the Year is a revised poem first published today (5/19) in 1938 as Chanson D’Aventure in The Oxford Magazine.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes, and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt.”
Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who does Lucy first meet when she visits Narnia?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 18th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On this date (2/18) in 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.”
The Seeing Eye
(Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Lewis went back to the BBC this month in 1949 to record what talk that aired the same day of its recording?
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QUOTE: September 24, 2013
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)