FACT OF THE DAY: On 11/14/1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (11/14) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (11/13) in 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is …
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FACT OF THE DAY: The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began today (11/7) in 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have …
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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 23rd letter from Screwtape was published today in The Guardian in 1941. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIII – The Historical Jesus
(First published in The Guardian on 10/3/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In That Hideous Strength were does Merlin’s magic come from and how does it relate to J.R.R. Tolkien?
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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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