FACT OF THE DAY: The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection, was first published on this day (1/4) in 1965 (it’s now out of print). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/24
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 3/27
FACT OF THE DAY: “Unreal Estates,” a transcript of an interview with Lewis and others was published in the March, 1965 edition of Encounter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” The Last Battle (Published on 3/19/1956) – – …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/24/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Unreal Estates,” a transcript of an interview with Lewis and others was published in the March, 1965 edition of Encounter.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In “The Last Battle” what is the result of the Dwarfs being so afraid of getting taken in again?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 4th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection was first published (but now out of print) on this day (1/4) in 1965.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
from “Is Theology Poetry?”
(Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the first book of essays that Lewis himself had published?
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