Tag: 1956

RETROSPECT: April 20th – 30th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the final third of April (20th – 30th) include: Publication of Perelandra, a talk “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” and Lewis’s first marriage to Joy Davidman.

Before Lewis gain fame from a series of books about a place called Narnia, he had written a trilogy that had a science fiction theme. The second of those books, Perelandra, came out on the 20th in 1943. In it we take a trip to Venus with the main character, Ransom and follow his quest to save that world from impending corruption. In the U.S. it wasn’t released until a year later on the 11th. In 1953 a paperback version came out under the title Voyage to Venus. On some occasions in his life Lewis considered this novel to be his best (this was also said of Till We Have Faces). Perelandra was dedicated “To Some Ladies at Wantage,” as in Wantage,

Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Dogma and Science” was published today (3/26) in 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”

The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The ______ ______ _____ _____ is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Last Battle was first published today (3/19) in 1956. This final Narnia story won the Carnegie Medal in Literature.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truely. For all find what they truely seek.'”

The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
“If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly _____ _____ ____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on this date (3/2) in 1956.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.”

Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Until you conquer the fear of being ___ ___, ___ ____ you will remain.” (submitted by Winifred Sherman)
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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.

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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)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“I have come home at last! The is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.”

A Slip of the Tongue
(Sermon preached on 1/29/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is ____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 24th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (12/24) in 1918 Lewis was demobilized from the army after being discharged from the hospital.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The degraded commercialism of our minds is quite as much its result as its cause.”

Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

On Christmas Eve in 1956 readers of The Times learn what surprising thing about Lewis?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On December 1, 1956 Lewis had “Behind the Scenes” published in Time and Tide. It is reprinted in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If it is true that all our enjoyment of the images, without remainder, can be explained in terms of infantile sexuality, then, I confess, our literary judgements are in ruins. But I do not believe it is true.”

Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism
(Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book did Lewis edit that came out this month that was related to one of his friends?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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.

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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 to Be Said
(First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is the other animal that helps Shift in The Last Battle and what does he do?
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