FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, …
CSL Daily 11/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on Nov. 1, 1948 in Punch (Almanac). Revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion …
CSL Daily 9/24/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938)
CSL Daily 9/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Adam Unparadised” is a poem first published on September 14, 1949 in Punch as “A Footnote to Pre-History.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.” “God in the Dock” (First …
CSL Daily 8/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue of Punch. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945)
CSL Daily 8/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 8/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sailing of the Ark” was published on August 11, 1948 in Punch. Revised and re-titled “The Late Passenger” in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen …
CSL Daily 7/23/17
FACT OF THE DAY: While two dozen poems by Lewis were published in Punch, “Revival or Decay?” is the only non-fiction work published there. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All sorts of things will make a man brave for the time being. Alcohol, ignorance of the danger, anger, self-respect, human loyalty, and love of …
CSL Daily 7/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem known today as The Magician and the Dryad was first published in Punch on July 20, 1949. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin …
CSL Daily 7/9/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Revival or Decay?” was published in the British weekly humor magazine Punch on July 9, 1958. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.” Mere Christianity (Published in 7/7/1952)