FACT OF THE DAY:
“Good Work and Good Works” by Lewis was published in the Christmas 1959 issue of Good Work (formerly Catholic Art Quarterly).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The apostle says every one must not only work but work to produce what is ‘good.'”
Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What helpful thing does Lord Bern do and in which Narnia book does he do it?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for your father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic.”
We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post 12/21-28/1963)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What non-fiction book did Lewis write that was not credited to him until after his death?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (12/19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning.”
Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post on 12/19/1959)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book took Lewis the shortest time to complete and how long was it?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“What Christmas Means to Me” was published in the December, 1957 issue of Twentieth Century magazine.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has been forced upon us by the shopkeepers.”
What Christmas Means to Me
(Published in Twentieth Century; December, 1957)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What speech did Lewis give this month (in what year) at King’s College?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Of all 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
(Talk given on 12/14/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How old was Pauline Baynes when she first began to illustrate the Narnia books?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (12/15) in 1944 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are not innocent.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI
(Published in The Guardian on 12/15/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote (four words):
“____(1)____ is ____(2)____ with ___(3)____ ___(4)___: but not all things are connected by the short and straight roads we expected.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College today (12/14) in 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.”
The Inner Ring
(Talk given on 12/14/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book was first published this month after Lewis’s death that dealt with topics from his professional career?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Scraps” is a group of brief thoughts by Lewis that was published in the December, 1945 issue of St James’ Magazine.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”
Foreword to Joy Davidman’s Smoke on the Mountain
(Quoted in A Mind Awake, published 12/3/69 in US)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on these things, let his mouth ____ _____ _____ ______.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“After Priggery – What?” is an essay by Lewis first published on December 7, 1945 in The Spectator. Available now in Present Concerns.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“To avoid a man’s society because he is poor or ugly or stupid may be bad; but to avoid it because he is wicked—with the all but inevitable implication that you are less wicked (at least in some respect)—is dangerous and disgusting.”
After Priggery – What?
(Published in The Spectator on 12/7/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
When you read The Chronicles of Narnia in their published order what object first mentioned in LWW (The Lion…) is not fully explained (i.e., it’s origin) until The Magician’s Nephew?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published today (12/8) in 1944 in The Guardian. This eventual became part of The Great Divorce.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V
(Published in The Guardian on 12/8/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
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