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.

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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 to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning.”

Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(Published in The Saturday Evening Post on 12/19/1959)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

To whom are The Screwtape Letters written?

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:He purchases Caspian’s freedom from Pug, the slave trader in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.