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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th

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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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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 17th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published today (6/17) in 1965.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round— we get afraid because we struggle.”

Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/17/1963
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What landmark event in Lewis’s life began related to his career this month in what year?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The U.K. edition of Letters to an American Lady was published in June, 1969 (it was first published in the U.S. on 12/19/1967).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.”

Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/10/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Whom did Lewis start a life-long correspondence with sometime this month in what year?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote to Hila Newman, an eleven-year-old, on this date (6/3) in 1953 giving her clues about “Aslan’s other name”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all born in.”

Letter to Keith Masson 6/3/1956
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What decision about his professional life that involved a major change did Lewis make sometime this month in what year?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 20th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” today (5/20) in 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.”

Religion without Dogma?
(Talk given on 5/20/1946)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What sermon did Lewis preach sometime this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on 5/11/1949 then revised and re-titled as The Adam at Night in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis accepted what temporary position this month that wasn’t in a subject he is most known for?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 6th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins.”

Two Ways with the Self
(Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Someone very close to Lewis was born this month; who was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Found in On Stories, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” was first a talk given on this day (4/29) in 1952.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

On Three Ways of Writing for Children
(Talk given on 4/29/1952)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Something occurred this month that also happen less than a year later for the second time in Lewis’s life: what was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 22nd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?” is the Annual Shakespeare Lecture Lewis gave on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?
(Lecture given on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What was unusual about a wound Lewis got this month (in what year)?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

While serving in WWI Lewis was wounded by a British shell on this day (4/15) in 1918 during the Battle of Arras.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him.”

The Grand Miracle
(Sermon Preached on 4/15/1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Two individuals close to Lewis died this month (one after his own death on this day); who are they?”
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