FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared Dec. 19, 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary …
CSL Daily 12/21
FACT OF THE DAY: “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for …
CSL Daily 12/19
FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (Dec. 19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language …
Essay Chat 19r – Screwtape Proposes a Toast (Brenton Dickieson)
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is an essay that is indirectly a follow-up to the successful book The Screwtape Letters. Brenton Dickieson joins William O’Flaherty for an essay chat on this insightful piece that Wormwood never got to hear. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1959 (see below for a link to read it …
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Fascinating Facts About The Screwtape Letters #11
The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. After Lewis said he would not write any more letters from Screwtape, he did an essay called “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” that was published in …
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/21
FACT OF THE DAY: “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/19
FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (12/19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes …
Essay Chat 19 – Screwtape Proposes a Toast (Brenton Dickieson)
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is an essay that is indirectly a follow-up to the successful book The Screwtape Letters. Brenton Dickieson joins William O’Flaherty for an essay chat on this insightful piece that Wormwood never got to hear. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1959 (see below for a link to read it …
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RETROSPECTIVE: December 21st – 31st
Highlights for the final third of December (21st – 31st) include: An essay about happiness, a special preview of a forthcoming book and two more installments of the eventual The Great Divorce.
Lewis had articles published in a large variety of places during his life. The final shorter work he wrote came out in The Saturday Evening Post less than a month after his death. “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” first appeared in their combined December 21-28, 1963 edition. The only other essay he wrote for them was the encore Screwtape piece mentioned last time. This article specifically attacks sexual happiness and was written at the invitation of the editor, Thomas Congdon. It begins with Lewis describing a comment by someone he calls “Clare” that defended the actions of others by stating “they have a right to happiness.”
Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
“We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for your father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic.”
We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post 12/21-28/1963)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What non-fiction book did Lewis write that was not credited to him until after his death?
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