FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (11/14) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us in the …
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 26th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Generous Conflict Illusion.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – The Generous Conflict Illusion
(First published in The Guardian on 10/24/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What fictional work came out as a second edition during the month of October?
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:The boy in The Magician’s Nephew who is the adult professor (Kirke) in LWW.
FACT OF THE DAY:
The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well known.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride
(First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
More than half of the Narnia books were published in the U.S. for the first time in October in the U.S.; which ones are they?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published today in The Guardian in 1941. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIII – The Historical Jesus
(First published in The Guardian on 10/3/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In That Hideous Strength were does Merlin’s magic come from and how does it relate to J.R.R. Tolkien?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 22nd Screwtape letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian (before being release in 1942 as a single book). It’s the only one signed by Toadpipe.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXII
(First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What final fictional book from Lewis was released this month?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published today in 1955.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.”
Surprised By Joy
(Published 9/19/1955)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the name of the creatures that are like angels in Lewis’ science fiction trilogy?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today (9/12) in 1941. The main topic is sexual temptation.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[Screwtape boasts:]
“Our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding [to temptation].”
The Screwtape Letters – XX
(First published in The Guardian on 9/12/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What two books with similar titles dealing with fictional works by Lewis and/or articles he wrote about literature were published after his death this month?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories edited by Walter Hooper was released today (9/5) in 1966. All the stories are also in The Dark Tower.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.”
On Stories
(Published in Of Other Worlds on 9/5/1966)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Aside from the Narnia books, how many fictional books were published by Lewis in his lifetime (excluding poetry)?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s parents, Albert and Florence (Flora) were married at St. Mark’s Church on this day (8/29) in 1894.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’
‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’
‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director.
‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.’
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What final book from a fictional series was published this month?
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