Tag: 1954

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 5th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”Morality and Psychoanalysis

(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 17th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.”

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Published 9/16/1954)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“Die before you die. There is no chance after.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by Lewis was published today (9/16) in 1954. (It was nearly 30 years in the making).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that an occasional defiance of the rule, resulting in a shock, can give pleasure; a pleasure rich in tragic or comic possibilities. Indeed one of the purposes for which the rule exists is that it may sometimes be broken.”

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Published 9/16/1954)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Before Narnia and Mere Christianity Lewis landed on the cover of what magazine?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Blimpophobia” is an article written by Lewis that was published on September 9, 1944 in Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother’s slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.”

The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

It’s no secret that J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t like the Narnia stories, however, what was a key problem he had with the first published story?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 6th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Horse and His Boy was published today (9/6) in 1954. It was the fifth published book.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.”

The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What was Lewis’s last major critical (professional) book published before his death?
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RETROSPECT: August 22nd – 31st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for August 22nd – 31st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.

As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis, died on the 23rd in 1908. This was also due to cancer. Although Lewis had prayed for his mother to live, he reports not actually being a Christian at the time

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Voyage to Venus by Lewis was published today (8/14) in 1953. It is the same book as Perelandra from 1943.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We must use the talent we have, not the talents we haven’t.”

Letter to Cynthia Donnelly 8/14/1954
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from: “…No dog I ever knew, least of all a talking dog of Narnia, likes to be called a ‘good little doggie’ then.”

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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 2nd

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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.

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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 think He is doing least. ”

Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin 8/2/1954
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis edited three books during his life, each about another writer. Two of them were about the same author. Who was that writer?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 31st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Business of Heaven, published earlier this month in 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Avoid introspection in prayer—I mean not to watch one’s own mind to see if it is in the right frame, but always to turn the attention outwards to God.”

Letter to Dr. F. Morgan Roberts 7/31/1954
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What was Edmund’s reply to Mr. Beaver’s description of Aslan and that he was coming back to Narnia?
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RETROSPECT: July 22nd – 31st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the period of July 22-31include: Lewis on the radio that wasn’t a part of the eventual Mere Christianity book, the U.S. release of The Four Loves and the publication of a friend’s landmark book that Lewis encouraged the author to write (hint: it has a “ring” to it).

When you consider a person’s life over the years (like this series has with C.S. Lewis), it’s no surprise that there might be a week or two were relatively little significant events happened. Such is the case for this time-period. However, there was a very meaningful moment in the life of a now more famous friend, J.R.R. Tolkien. In 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring was published at the end of July (the actual date is either the 24th or 29th, as I’ve seen both listed).

It’s not just because they were friends that it’s worth mentioning, rather