FACT OF THE DAY: “The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on 11/1/1948 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 …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/16) in 1966 the US edition of Letters of C.S. Lewis came out. It was edited, with a memoir by W.H. Lewis, his brother. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The remarkable thing about his literary career is that it never occurred to him until a relatively late date …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the …
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FACT OF THE DAY: “Period Criticism” is an essay about Chesterton that was first published today (Nov. 9) in 1946 in “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The truth is that the whole criticism which turns on dates and periods, as if age-groups were the …
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FACT OF THE DAY:
After being released in the UK earlier in 1958, Reflections of the Psalms came out in the US the same year on November 5th.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience the funniest things have occurred in the gravest and most sincere conversations.)”
Reflections on the Psalms
(Published in November 5, 1958 in the U.S.)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“Everybody says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until ____ _____ _____ _____ ______ .”
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/2) in 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after …
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FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (10/29) in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of …
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis preached his first sermon today (10/22) in 1939. We know it as “Learning in War-Time” (Then it was “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time”)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
Learning in War-Time
(Preached on 10/22/1939 as “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time”)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“An old saint being asked whether it is easy or hard to love God replied: ‘It is easy to _____ ______ _____ ____.'”
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: The Great Knock
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today in 1951 Prince Caspian was the second Narnia story published.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Things never happen the same way twice.”
Prince Caspian
(Published 10/15/1951)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The whole point of seeing through something is to _____ ______ _____ ____.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
A second edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress was published in October, 1935 by Sheed & Ward. The first publisher was J.M. Dent in 1933. The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition officially comes out today (10/12/14).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
The Pilgrim’s Regress
(2nd Edition Published October 1935)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“It is great men, potential saints, not little men, who become merciless fanatics…. They are _____ _____, _____ _____ , some temptations.”
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