FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published this month in 1956 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on this day (1/29) in 1956. It was preached at Evernsong at Magdalene College. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 19th
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. – – – 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 …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 18th
FACT OF THE DAY: “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first published today (11/18) in 1956 in The New York Times Book Review. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 10th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Till We Have Faces, Lewis’s last published fictional work was released today (9/10) in 1956.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Die before you die, there is no chance after.”
Till We Have Faces
(Published 9/10/1956
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Progress means not just changing, but _____ ______ _____ _____.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 18th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956
(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 and who said it:
“No more Aslan, no more Kings, no more silly stories about other worlds. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today (8/7) in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven. ”
Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What did Lewis do this month that made the publication of the Narnia books possible?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 14th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.”
The Screwtape Letters XI
(Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Puddleglum is based on what person is Lewis’s life?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Happy anniversary to Lewis & Joy Davidman (1st time married on April 23, 1956).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“All the beauty of nature withers when we try to make it absolute. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.”
Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/23/1951
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“A man who _____ _____ _____ can accept no forgiveness.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is asleep in The Silver Chair but wakes up in The Last Battle?
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