FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (1/6) in 1944 The Abolition of Man was first published. It came from a series of lectures from Feb. 1943.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved.”
The Abolition of Man
(Published on 1/6/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is the first talking animal Prince Caspian hears when he regains consciousness?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (1/5) in 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“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 ____ ____ ____ _____ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection was first published (but now out of print) on this day (1/4) in 1965.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
from “Is Theology Poetry?”
(Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the first book of essays that Lewis himself had published?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on this day (1/3) in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.”
Religion and Science
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Although fourteen chapters are in The Great Divorce, it was first published in how many weekly installments?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The paperback edition of Reflections of the Psalms was published on this date (1/2) in 1961. It was first released in 1958.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”
Reflections on the Psalms
(Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How was Pauline Baynes selected to illustrate the Narnia books?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (1/1) in 1931 Lewis began the first “walking tour” with his brother, Warnie.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.”
Reflections on the Psalms
(Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote (four words):
“Reality, in fact, is always something _____ _____ ______ ______ . That’s one of the reasons I believe Christianity.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On December 29, 1944 the essay “Private Bates” was published in The Spectator. Now available in Present Concerns.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading articles: the poor read the sporting news, which is mostly true.”
Private Bates
(Published in The Spectator on 12/29/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How long did it take Lewis to write the first five published Narnia books?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The End of the Wine” is a poem published in Punch on 12/3/47; a revised version called “The Last of the Wine” is in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“In this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
Beyond the Bright Blur
(Published 12/25/1963; chapter 17 of Letters to Malcolm)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
The Silver Chair was the fourth published Narnia story, but in order of the chronologies of the plots it falls where?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Beyond the Bright Blur was a limited edition title published today (12/25) in 1963 that contained chapters 15-17 of Letters to Malcolm.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[God] must constantly work as the iconoclast. Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking ‘But I never knew before, I never dreamed . . .'”
Beyond the Bright Blur
(Published 12/25/1963; chapter 15 of Letters to Malcolm)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (five words):
“There are a dozen views about everything ______ ______ _____ _______ _______ . Then there’s never more than one.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (12/24) in 1918 Lewis was demobilized from the army after being discharged from the hospital.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The degraded commercialism of our minds is quite as much its result as its cause.”
Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
On Christmas Eve in 1956 readers of The Times learn what surprising thing about Lewis?
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