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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 15th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on this day (6/15) in 1925 and lasted there three decades.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed, & then to find yourself still in bed.”

Letter to Arthur Greeves 6/15/1930
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Woe to you if you ____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the vast astronomical distances may not be God’s quarantine precautions. They prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading.”

Religion and Rocketry (initially titled Will We Lose God in Outer Space)
(Published in Christian Herald in April 1958 issue)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

From which Narnia book is the following passage and who said it: “Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things…in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 27th

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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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Quotes NOT By Lewis: A Preliminary Examination

William OFlaherty CSL Minute, Not Quite Lewis, Special Feature

Not long ago I was talking to Abraham Lincoln and he told me, “The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity.” My reply to him was that I thought C.S. Lewis had actually made that statement! Of course, I’m making this up; I’ve never spoken to Lincoln and I don’t believe Lewis ever said it. However, there are many quotations floating around online that are attributed to Lewis that he actually never wrote.

Back in March, 2013 I posted in a couple Facebook groups that I was trying to collect quotations that were credited as being by Lewis that were suspect. Even though there was a decent response to my request, I began to be involved in other projects that took up my time. The issue came back to the forefront of my mind when a friend saw one of the more common quotes misattributed to Lewis shared on Facebook by a famous author.