CSL Daily 12/26/18

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Beyond the Bright Blur (Published 12/25/1963; chapter 17 of Letters to Malcolm) – …

CSL Daily 06/24/18

FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out on June 24, 1965 (first published September 7, 1953).  – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …

CSL Daily 12/26/17

FACT OF THE DAY: “The End of the Wine” is a poem published in Punch on Dec. 3, 1947; a revised version called “The Last of the Wine” is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is …