FACT OF THE DAY:
The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is the only daughter of Kidrash Tarkaan and where is her story told?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.”
Letter to Mary Neylan
(from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/20/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis based the character of Digory on an important figure from this own life. Name that person.
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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.
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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 he is wicked—with the all but inevitable implication that you are less wicked (at least in some respect)—is dangerous and disgusting.”
After Priggery – What?
(Published in The Spectator on 12/7/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
When you read The Chronicles of Narnia in their published order what object first mentioned in LWW (The Lion…) is not fully explained (i.e., it’s origin) until The Magician’s Nephew?
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Do you know who the first male human is to visit Narnia as a boy?
How many orders can you read The Chronicles of Narnia in? Let me count the ways!
If you were alive in the 1950’s when the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis came out you practically had only one way to read them…in the order they were published.
