FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (Dec. 27) in 1918 Lewis arrived home unexpectedly in the AM after being demobilized on the 24th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII (Published in The Guardian on 12/22/1944)
CSL Daily 12/22
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII” was published today (Dec. 22) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.” Who Goes Home? or The …
CSL Daily 12/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited and published in 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not …
CSL Daily 12/15
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (Dec. 15) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are …
CSL Daily 12/14
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College today (Dec. 14) in 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944)
CSL Daily 12/08
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published today (Dec. 8) in 1944 in The Guardian. This eventual became part of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V …
CSL Daily 12/01
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (Dec. 1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 3 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider …
CSL Daily 11/24
FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (Nov. 24) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published …
CSL Daily 11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published today (Nov. 17) in 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting …
CSL Daily 11/06
FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper read by Lewis to the Socratic Club today (Nov. 6) in 1944. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are taught from childhood to notice how the perfect oak grows from the acorn and to forget that the acorn itself was dropped by a …