A number of Anglophone writers thought November 22 might be a good day to die…
C.S. Lewis, beloved Irish-born fantasist author of the Narnia books, medievalist scholar at Oxford, and lay theologian & Christian apologist - died this day in 1963 (age 64) from a heart attack as a result of end stage renal failure…
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Photo by Arthur Strong, 1947 - bromide print on Ilford paper (NPG, London)
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