Tag: The Silver Chair

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 21st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”

Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is asleep in The Silver Chair but wakes up in The Last Battle?
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2013 Best of Recap

William OFlaherty All About Jack

Over the last year I’ve had the privilege of interviewing many individuals. I checked the data of what shows were downloaded the most and the following podcast shares some of them. The program is just over 30 minutes, so I only share some brief moments from them. Check the links below to listen to those entire shows (and learn what I highlight). I also provide a second list of links to shows I didn’t include in the recap (because they were in the last two months) that were among the top downloads for the year.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“The End of the Wine” is a poem published in Punch on 12/3/47; a revised version called “The Last of the Wine” is in Poems.

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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)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

The Silver Chair was the fourth published Narnia story, but in order of the chronologies of the plots it falls where?
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Land Lower Than Underland (CSLM-36)

William OFlaherty CSL Minute

Just when Jill, Eustace and Puddleglum think there is no place lower than Underland they find out how wrong they were.

In The Silver Chair our friends become trapped while trying to rescue the lost prince. They find Gnomes, or Earthmen who are under the spell of the Lady of the Green Kirtle. She rules Underland and is planning to use Prince Rilian as a slave-king to take over Narnia.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not allowed to exclude all others.”

Behind the Scenes
(Published in Time and Tide on 12/1/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Glimfeather and what is a key thing he does to the children in The Silver Chair?
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RETRO: September 2nd – 11th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect

Highlights for September 2nd-11th 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.

The 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.