Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 31st

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (5/31) in 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle.

Transposition
(Sermon preached on 5/28/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What talk did Lewis give this month at the Oxford Socratic Club that had a question mark in the title?
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Retro: May 29th – June 4th

Highlights in Lewis’s life for the week are: Advice from Screwtape on the danger war is to contented worldliness, a letter about figuring out “Aslan’s other name” and the acceptance of a new position late in his professional career.

One major event stands above all else for this time period in the life of Lewis. Most who know his life fairly