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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 23rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch, today (6/23) in 1948) and was revised and reprinted in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”

The Screwtape Letters VIII
(Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which book from The Chronicles of Narnia did Lewis share the galley proofs of to his friends, the Inklings?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 22nd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on this day (6/22) in 1950.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.”

Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Joy is the serious _____ _____ _____ .
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 8th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (4/8) in 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.”

Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

This month one of the three books that became a part of Mere Christianity was published; what was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 8th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

During this month in 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.”

Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book by Lewis that had been a series of broadcasts was published sometime this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The (often misunderstood) debate between #CSLewis and Anscombe happen on this date (2/2) in 1948.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIII
(Published in The Guardian on 2/2/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“For it is not so ___ ___ ___ ___ and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 13th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (1/13) in 1919 Lewis returned to Oxford after being demobilized the previous month (WWI, of course).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“He who converts his neighbour has performed the most practical Christian political act of all.”

Meditation on the Third Commandment
(Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In what Narnia book was this said and who said it? “In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 19th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on 11/1/1948 in Punch (Almanac). Revised version is in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood.”

Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said
(First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Earlier this month Lewis gave the final talk to what series in what year (and what was the talk?)
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RETRO: September 22nd – 30th

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Highlights for September 22nd – 30th include: Debut story of a Sci-Fi trilogy, a landmark book published anonymously and the death of Lewis’s father to cancer.

It’s no secret that Lewis is known for being a versatile writer. One of his earliest efforts that spotlighted this fact is what happened 75 years ago on September 23rd. In 1938 Lewis released the first of what is referred to its fans as the Ransom trilogy. That’s because Dr. Elwin Ransom is a