Tag: 1945

Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published today (1/19) in 1945; it covered the first quarter of chapter nine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI
(Published in The Guardian on 1/19/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Far better things lie ahead than _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published today (1/12) in 1945; it covered all of chapter eight.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X
(Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“He may say on his arrival down here, ‘I now see that I _____ _____ _____ ____ ____ in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.'”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (1/5) in 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.”

Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man ____ ____ ____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on this day (1/3) in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.”

Religion and Science
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Although fourteen chapters are in The Great Divorce, it was first published in how many weekly installments?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 28th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“On the Atomic Bomb (Metrical Experiment)” by Lewis was a poem printed today (12/28) in 1945 in The Spectator.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“In a rational world, things would be made because they were wanted; in the actual world, wants have to be created in order that people may receive money for making the things.”

Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name an essay/article that Lewis wrote with the word “Christmas” in it.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 11th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Scraps” is a group of brief thoughts by Lewis that was published in the December, 1945 issue of St James’ Magazine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”

Foreword to Joy Davidman’s Smoke on the Mountain
(Quoted in A Mind Awake, published 12/3/69 in US)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on these things, let his mouth ____ _____ _____ ______.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“After Priggery – What?” is an essay by Lewis first published on December 7, 1945 in The Spectator. Available now in Present Concerns.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To avoid a man’s society because he is poor or ugly or stupid may be bad; but to avoid it because he is wicked—with the all but inevitable implication that you are less wicked (at least in some respect)—is dangerous and disgusting.”

After Priggery – What?
(Published in The Spectator on 12/7/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

When you read The Chronicles of Narnia in their published order what object first mentioned in LWW (The Lion…) is not fully explained (i.e., it’s origin) until The Magician’s Nephew?
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RETROSPECTIVE: December 1st – 10th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect

Highlights for the first third of December (1st – 10th) include: The first book in the US collecting Lewis quotes, a collection of essays related to his profession and a book edited by Lewis focused on Charles Williams.

A Mind AwakeIn today’s world it’s not difficult to find a quote attributed to C.S. Lewis. Searching online provides a wide variety of quotations, but not all are actually things Lewis said (which will be the topic of an article I’ll be publishing in 2014). In the “old days” you had to rely on a much more reliable resource known as a book. The first of these actually came out in early 1968 in the UK, but the US version wasn’t published until this month on the 3rd in 1969. A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis is actually more than a collection of quotes, as some of the selections are lengthier. Also unlike the more recent The Quotable Lewis, which is arranged in alphabetical order, A Mind Awake is divided into ten major topics that has three to five subtopics each.