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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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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (1/1) in 1931 Lewis began the first “walking tour” with his brother, Warnie.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.”

Reflections on the Psalms
(Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote (four words):
“Reality, in fact, is always something _____ _____ ______ ______ . That’s one of the reasons I believe Christianity.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 13th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Vision of John Bunyan” was published today (12/13) in 1962 in The Listener. It was first a radio talk on the BBC.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Allegory frustrates itself the moment the author starts doing what could equally well be done in a straight sermon or treatise. It is a valid form only so long as it is doing what could not be done at all, or done so well, in any other way.We must be taught that this tent is not home.”

The Vision of John Bunyan
(Published in The Listener on 12/13/1962)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the first academic title Lewis had published?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 6th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On 12/4/1962 an informal conversation between Lewis, Kingsley Amis and Brian Aldiss was recorded and later published as “Unreal Estates.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A book’s no good to me until I’ve read it two or three times.”

Unreal Estates
(First recorded on 12/4/62 and later published after his death)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the title of the first book in the Space Trilogy?
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RETROSPECTIVE: December 1st – 10th

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Highlights for the first third of December (1st – 10th) include: The first book in the US collecting Lewis quotes, a collection of essays related to his profession and a book edited by Lewis focused on Charles Williams.

A Mind AwakeIn today’s world it’s not difficult to find a quote attributed to C.S. Lewis. Searching online provides a wide variety of quotations, but not all are actually things Lewis said (which will be the topic of an article I’ll be publishing in 2014). In the “old days” you had to rely on a much more reliable resource known as a book. The first of these actually came out in early 1968 in the UK, but the US version wasn’t published until this month on the 3rd in 1969. A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis is actually more than a collection of quotes, as some of the selections are lengthier. Also unlike the more recent The Quotable Lewis, which is arranged in alphabetical order, A Mind Awake is divided into ten major topics that has three to five subtopics each.