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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published today (1/19) in 1945; it covered the first quarter of chapter nine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI
(Published in The Guardian on 1/19/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Far better things lie ahead than _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 17th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s “The Efficacy of Prayer” essay appeared in the January issue of The Atlantic Monthly in 1959.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of properly trained parrots would serve as well.”

The Efficacy of Prayer
(Published in the January, 1959 issue of The Atlantic Monthly)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What other fictional book by Lewis was published the same year as the final Narnia book “The Last Battle?”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 16th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Romantics” is a poem that was found in The New English Weekly today (1/16) in 1947, but is now know as “The Prudent Jailer.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.”

The Inner Ring
(Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of Aslan’s father?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Pan’s Purge,” a poem by Lewis was published today (1/15) in 1947 in Punch; it’s now printed in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.”

The Great Divorce
(Published on 1/14/1946)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
“In any wholesome group of people which holds together for a good purpose, the exclusions are in a sense accidental…But your genuine Inner Ring _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 14th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Great Divorce (complete book) was published on this day (1/14) in 1946. The installments were called “Who Goes Home? Or The Grand Divorce.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”

The Great Divorce
(Published on 1/14/1946)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Sometime this month Lewis did what for the first time that related to him changing jobs?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (1/13) in 1919 Lewis returned to Oxford after being demobilized the previous month (WWI, of course).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“He who converts his neighbour has performed the most practical Christian political act of all.”

Meditation on the Third Commandment
(Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In what Narnia book was this said and who said it? “In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published today (1/12) in 1945; it covered all of chapter eight.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X
(Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“He may say on his arrival down here, ‘I now see that I _____ _____ _____ ____ ____ in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.'”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 11th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (1/11) in 1942 Lewis gave his first talk in the second BBC series called “What Christians Believe.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God.”

What Christians Believe
(First BBC Broadcast on 1/11/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What academic title was released on what date this month by Lewis?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Birth of Language” is a poem by Lewis published today (1/9) in Punch in 1946 (it uses planetary imagery).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“May God’s grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One’s own are a much more profitable theme!”

Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/9/1961)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How many mothballs fall out of the wardrobe when Lucy opens it for the first time? (submitted by Al Nolan)
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 8th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (1/8) in 1955 Lewis’s article “George Orwell” was published in Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.”

Letter to Sheldon Vanauken
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/8/1951)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good ____ _____ _____ _______ .”
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