Tag: That Hideous Strength

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 21st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue of Punch.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”

That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it: “No more Aslan, no more Kings, no more silly stories about other worlds. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”

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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

That Hideous Strength, a book from Lewis’s Sci-Fi trilogy, was published today (8/16) in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one. ”

That Hideous Strength
(Published in 8/16/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

A new edition of what non-fiction book was published this month?
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RETROSPECT: August 12th – 21st

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Highlights for August 12-21 include: A final series of radio talks, the concluding book of a series, two more talks from his initial broadcast series and a never before published essay by Lewis that became available in 1990.

The first scholarly book by Lewis was The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. The theme of love in a broader sense is (obviously) of great importance to him and can be found in a large variety of his writings. So it is of no surprise that when Lewis finally agreed to return to the microphone for another series of radio talks this was the theme. These talks were recorded in London on the 19th and 20th in 1958, but they were not done for the BBC (as his previous radio work was). It was the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation from the United States who had made the request. Eventually the material from these talks were extended to become The Four Loves.

RETROSPECT: May 11th – 21st

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Highlights for the second of May (11th – 21st) include: Initial publication of Miracles, the landmark first meeting with a famous friend and securing his longest employment.

“Miracles” is among the many misused words in our vocabulary today. This was true even back in 1947 when Miracles: A Preliminary Study was released on the 12th by C.S. Lewis. Of course, Lewis was addressing more of an unbelief in the miraculous. In fact, as the inside dusk jacket of the first edition notes, the subtitle isn’t about Lewis giving his tentative thoughts on the subject, but rather the book is designed to be “a study preliminary to any historical inquiry into the actual occurrence of miracles.” That is, before any examination of specific miracles one has to believe that the miraculous can genuinely occur. Nearly thirteen years later (as mentioned in the previous column) a new edition was released containing a revised third chapter.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 31st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis was president of the Oxford Socratic Club from it’s founding (1942) until 1955 (when he started teaching at Cambridge).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.'”

Letter to Arthur Greeves on 1/31/1917
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the bear in That Hideous Strength?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 28th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Abolition of Man (released 1/6/1944) is the book Lewis did that he claimed addressed “a ‘serious’ point” that is presented in That Hideous Strength.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is no use to ask God with facetious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must lay before Him what is in us not what ought to be in us.”

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
(Published on 1/27/1964)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis did something new related to his professional duties at Oxford on what date in what year this month?
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Outside Wishing In (CSLM-38)

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Feel like your job is humdrum and wish you could be part of the movers and shakers? Mark Studdock did and regretted it.

As That Hideous Strength opens Mark Studdock is a newly married man with dreams of making it big in the academic world, if only he was a part of the “in” crowd who made the decisions. Just like Lewis’ description in his essay “The Inner Ring,” Mark is willing to compromise himself to gain membership into a group that has very questionable practices.

Charles Williams (CSLM-37)

William OFlaherty CSL Minute, Special Feature

This Inklings member had a very profound impact on C.S. Lewis, even though he died less than ten years after they became friends.

As noted in a previous post Lewis often met with a group of friends where they frequently discussed their writings. After reading Charles Williams’ The Place of the Lion Lewis developed a friendship with him. Williams was working at the Oxford University Press at the time.

When Traveling Space (CSLM-30)

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If you every happen to travel into space I know someone you should take with you.

Fans of Lewis’ science fiction know the person to have along with you when are exploring the heavens is Dr. Elwin Ransom. As told in Out of the Silent Planet, Ransom in kidnapped and taken to Mars by others who have evil intentions, but he outwits them. Then in the second story in the series, Perelandra, he travels to Venus to help save that world from corruption.