FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s “Prudery and Philology” was published today (1/21) in 1955 in The Spectator. It is available in the Present Concerns book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” The …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 22nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day in 1944 “The Death of Words” was published in The Spectator. It was republished in On Stories.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?”
The Death of Words
(Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book from the Narnia series was published in March of 1956?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Condemned” is a poem first published as “Under Sentence” on September 7, 1945 in The Spectator.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way.. . .”
Letter to Mrs. Lockley on 9/2/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How old was Lewis when his first book was published and what was it?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 28th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Equality” is a shorter work by Lewis published August 27, 1943 in The Spectator.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other: that is, in opposite directions.”
Equality
(Published in The Spectator on 8/27/1943)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How many Narnia books were published for the first time during the month of September?
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RETROSPECT: August 22nd – 31st
Highlights for August 22nd – 31st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.
As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis, died on the 23rd in 1908. This was also due to cancer. Although Lewis had prayed for his mother to live, he reports not actually being a Christian at the time
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 30th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Epitaph” is a poem published today (7/30) in 1948 in The Spectator. Revised and retitled as “Epigrams and Epitaphs” in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself. ”
The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“So often, whether for good or ill, one’s inner state seems to have so little connection _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 28th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The lighthearted essay “A Dream” was first published on this date (7/28) in 1944 in The Spectator. It’s available in Present Concerns.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“In my waking hours I would never [approve some actions]. But the dreaming mind is regrettably immoral.”
A Dream
(Published in The Spectator on 7/28/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which of the Narnia books did Lewis NOT dedicated to anyone?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
In 1941 on this day (2/7) “Evil and God” was published in The Spectator. In 1944 “Bulverism” was a talk Lewis gave at the Socratic Club.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If evil has the same kind of reality as good, the same autonomy and completeness, our allegiance to good becomes the arbitrarily chosen loyalty of a partisan.”
Evil and God
(Published in The Spectator on 2/7/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What short story by Lewis was published this month in what publication?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s “Prudery and Philology” was published today (1/21) in 1955 in The Spectator. It is available in the Present Concerns book.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
The Weight of Glory
(Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which broadcast series from what became part of Mere Christianity did Lewis begin on what day this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 30th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On December 29, 1944 the essay “Private Bates” was published in The Spectator. Now available in Present Concerns.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading articles: the poor read the sporting news, which is mostly true.”
Private Bates
(Published in The Spectator on 12/29/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How long did it take Lewis to write the first five published Narnia books?
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