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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus” is a satirical piece by Lewis published in the December 4, 1954 issue of Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work.”

A Note on Jane Austen
(Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book has the character Strawberry in it, what new name is he given and what does it mean?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 4th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published today in 1969.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Bible thus considered, for good or ill, as a single book, has been read for almost every purpose more diligently than for literary pleasure.”
The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version
(Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today in 1969. The UK version came out 3/4/68.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”

Quote as from Encounter with Light
(Published in A Mind Awake; from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken on 12/23/1950)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What lectures did Lewis give this month that later became a book?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not allowed to exclude all others.”

Behind the Scenes
(Published in Time and Tide on 12/1/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Glimfeather and what is a key thing he does to the children in The Silver Chair?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (12/1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 4 of The Great Divorce.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV
(Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately; anyway, you can’t get the best out of it.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 30th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (11/30) in the US in 1970. It was edited by Walter Hooper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad. ”

Answers to Questions on Christianity
(Published in God in the Dock; 11/30/1970)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What landmark talk did Lewis give this month that was latter published and a version of it was even heard on the radio?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s inaugural lecture for Cambridge University was given on this date (11/29) in 1954. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”

De Descriptione Temporum
(Inaugural lecture given by Lewis on 11/29/54)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In “The Great Divorce” the residents of what place go on a holiday trip to where?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 28th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:]
“He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXXI
(First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the First Joke (cause of the first laughter) after Narnia was created?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 27th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that the present situation demands this. I see around me no danger of Deism but much of an immoral, naive and sentimental pantheism. I have often found that it was in fact the chief obstacle to conversion.”

Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger (Published 11/26/58 in The Christian Century)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote): “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s funeral was held on this day (11/26) in 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists or in the unintelligible language of highly cultured clergymen. Most men were reached by neither.”

Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger (Published 11/26/58 in The Christian Century)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis was deployed to France in 1917 (WWI) with what regiment?
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