Tag: 1963

Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (2/18) in 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.”

The Seeing Eye
(Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis went back to the BBC this month in 1949 to record what talk that aired the same day of its recording?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 14th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

A Grief Observed was published for the first time in the US today (14th) in 1963, after being released in the UK on 9/29/1961. Also paperbacks of The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity (both 1955) in the UK.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.”

A Grief Observed
(Published in the US on 2/14/1963)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What famous fictional book was published twice this month a year apart?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 25th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Beyond the Bright Blur was a limited edition title published today (12/25) in 1963 that contained chapters 15-17 of Letters to Malcolm.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[God] must constantly work as the iconoclast. Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking ‘But I never knew before, I never dreamed . . .'”

Beyond the Bright Blur
(Published 12/25/1963; chapter 15 of Letters to Malcolm)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (five words):
“There are a dozen views about everything ______ ______ _____ _______ _______ . Then there’s never more than one.”
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