FACT OF THE DAY: “Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on March 2, 1956. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 2/3/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of 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)
CSL Daily 1/29/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on January 29, 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 not even …
CSL Daily 12/10
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. – – – 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, …
CSL Daily 11/19
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on Nov. 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 …
CSL Daily 11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first published today (Nov. 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 …
CSL Daily 9/10
FACT OF THE DAY: Till We Have Faces, Lewis’s last published fictional work was released today (Sept. 10) in 1956. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Die before you die, there is no chance after.” Till We Have Faces (Published 9/10/1956
CSL Daily 8/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch. – – – 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. …
CSL Daily 8/07
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today (Aug. 7) in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 7/14
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). – – – 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 …