FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today in 1969. The UK version came out 3/4/68. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 3/4
FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the first time today (3/4) in 1968. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying “Fear not.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953 (Published …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 4th
FACT OF THE DAY:
A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the first time today (3/4) in 1968.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying “Fear not.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the author who Lewis claims baptized his imagination in his teens.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 3rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today in 1969. The UK version came out 3/4/68.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”
Quote as from Encounter with Light
(Published in A Mind Awake; from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken on 12/23/1950)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What lectures did Lewis give this month that later became a book?
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RETROSPECTIVE: December 1st – 10th
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.