FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us in the …
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 26th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Generous Conflict Illusion.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – The Generous Conflict Illusion
(First published in The Guardian on 10/24/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What fictional work came out as a second edition during the month of October?
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:The boy in The Magician’s Nephew who is the adult professor (Kirke) in LWW.
FACT OF THE DAY:
The 25th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Enemy Loves Platitudes.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[Screwtape Complains:] “The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, but the bond remains mere Christianity.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXV – The Enemy Loves Platitudes
(First published in The Guardian on 10/17/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What character does Lewis give a name to that narrates his retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well known.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride
(First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
More than half of the Narnia books were published in the U.S. for the first time in October in the U.S.; which ones are they?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 22nd Screwtape letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian (before being release in 1942 as a single book). It’s the only one signed by Toadpipe.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXII
(First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What final fictional book from Lewis was released this month?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today (9/12) in 1941. The main topic is sexual temptation.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[Screwtape boasts:]
“Our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding [to temptation].”
The Screwtape Letters – XX
(First published in The Guardian on 9/12/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What two books with similar titles dealing with fictional works by Lewis and/or articles he wrote about literature were published after his death this month?
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Highlights for September 1-11 include: Two Narnia books published, a final fictional work, being on the cover of Time in the U.S. and his only title devoted to a book of the Bible.
Time CoverThe number of books published over the years during these ten days would be enough for most authors for an entire lifetime. Although, two of the titles are collections of shorter works were released after his death, interestingly the five others were during the last eleven years of his life. An additional title, A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis, is a lesser known collection of quotes first available in March, 1968, but was published as a paperback on the 9th in 1980.
FACT OF THE DAY:
The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.”
The Screwtape Letters XVIII
(Published in The Guardian on 8/29/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Prior to Letters to Malcolm being published three of the chapters were published under what title and why?
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Highlights for August 22nd – 31st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.
As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis, died on the 23rd in 1908. This was also due to cancer. Although Lewis had prayed for his mother to live, he reports not actually being a Christian at the time
FACT OF THE DAY:
The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.”
The Screwtape Letters XV
(Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What animal was Screwtape turn into when he became so angry with Wormwood?
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