FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (12/15) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/14
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.” – – – 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) – – …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/11
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. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/9
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. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/8
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. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V (Published …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/5
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. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/4
FACT OF THE DAY: Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published today (12/4) in 1969. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/3
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. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/2
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures today (12/2) in 1941 on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/1
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. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than …