FACT OF THE DAY:

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today (Dec. 3) in 1969. The UK version came out March 4, 1968.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”

(Published in A Mind Awake; from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken on 12/23/1950 found in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3)