FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected his relationship with his sons. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/23
FACT OF THE DAY: While today (8/23) was Lewis’s father birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) died. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.” That Hideous Strength (Published in 8/16/1945) …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/16
FACT OF THE DAY: That Hideous Strength, a book from Lewis’s Sci-Fi trilogy, was published today (8/16) in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one. “ That Hideous Strength (Published in 8/16/1945) – – – QUIZ …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/2
FACT OF THE DAY: “On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Quam Bene Saturno, Lewis’s first published poem came out in July, 1913 (when he was just 14). It was in Cherbourg School Magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/24
FACT OF THE DAY: All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922-27 came out in the US today (7/24) in 1991 (three months after its release in the UK). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can step outside one experience only by stepping inside another. Therefore, if all inside experiences are …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published today (7/17) in The Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/19
FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/2
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/28
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope today (5/28) in 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out 5/12/1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one …