“The Condemned” is a poem first published as “Under Sentence” on September 7, 1945 in The Spectator.
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)
QUOTE: August 21, 2013
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
FACT: August 16, 2013
The book of the Sci-Fi trilogy, That Hideous Strength, was published today (8/16) in 1945.
Fact: August 3, 2013
“On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today.
Quote: July 29, 2013
“We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, intrinsically truer or better than looking along. One must look both along and at everything.”
Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph 7/17/1945)
Quote: July 24, 2013
“You can step outside one experience only by stepping inside another. Therefore, if all inside experiences are misleading, we are always misled.”
Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph 7/17/1945)
Quote: July 17, 2013
“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 Evening Telegraph 7/17/1945)
Fact: July 17, 2013
The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published today in The Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1945. It’s best available in God in the Dock.
Fact: June 17, 2013
“Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford.