FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Jane Austen” was published in the October, 1954 issue of Essays in Criticism. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible.” A Note on Jane Austen (Published in the October, …
CSL Daily 10/05/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast …
CSL Daily 9/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems. – – – 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)
CSL Daily 9/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by Lewis was published September 16, 1954. (It was nearly 30 years in the making). – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 9/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Blimpophobia” is an article written by Lewis that was published on September 9, 1944 in Time and Tide. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 9/06/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Horse and His Boy was published on September 6, 1954. It was the fifth published book. – – – 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. …
CSL Daily 8/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Voyage to Venus by Lewis was published on August 14, 1953. It is the same book as Perelandra from 1943. – – – 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)
CSL Daily 8/02/17
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 think He …
CSL Daily 7/31/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Business of Heaven, published in July 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 6/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Science-Fiction Cradlesong is a revised poem by Lewis published on June 11, 1954 under a different title in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to …