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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The first paperback edition of Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy was published today (5/4) in 1959.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s “Rejoice.” We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.”

Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962
(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 (2 words):
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 1st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The first of The Screwtape Letters debuted this month (May 2nd) in 1941 when it appeared in The Guardian (a weekly newspaper).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the first of the Pevensie children to visit Narnia?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 24th

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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 23rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Good Work and Good Works” by Lewis was published in the Christmas 1959 issue of Good Work (formerly Catholic Art Quarterly).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The apostle says every one must not only work but work to produce what is ‘good.'”

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

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What helpful thing does Lord Bern do and in which Narnia book does he do it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 19th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (12/19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning.”

Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post on 12/19/1959)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book took Lewis the shortest time to complete and how long was it?
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RETRO: September 22nd – 30th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect

Highlights for September 22nd – 30th include: Debut story of a Sci-Fi trilogy, a landmark book published anonymously and the death of Lewis’s father to cancer.

It’s no secret that Lewis is known for being a versatile writer. One of his earliest efforts that spotlighted this fact is what happened 75 years ago on September 23rd. In 1938 Lewis released the first of what is referred to its fans as the Ransom trilogy. That’s because Dr. Elwin Ransom is a