Famous Pipe Smoker Died on this Day in 1963

[Chasing Embers]

S. Lewis anticipated the anti tobacco movement.

That's been going since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh.

 

[tabakpfeife]

I had a professor once who asked his class, first day every year, for a show of hands if the kids remembered the Kennedy assasination. Every year there were fewer and fewer hands. He said it was pretty distressing. I don't remember it myself, but I remember the funeral.

 

[warren]

That's been going since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh.

The Queen as not a fan. Nor, was she amused!

Lewis was late to the party.

 

[Etipton]

More importantly, Shemp Howard also died on this date in 1955.

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I loved watching the old three stooges reruns growing up

 

[Michigan_Bill]

Peter Kreeft wrote a book entitled:

Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis Aldous Huxley​

 

[Michigan_Bill]

I don’t think it mentions pipes, unfortunately.

 

[Chasing Embers]

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That's not Shemp, it's Moe.

 

[SBC]

Nope. I'm more Alighieri

If you appreciate Dante and ever want to try Lewis, you may enjoy his little The Great Divorce -- a partial and repurposed retelling of the Comedy in which he makes McDonald his Virgil, etc.

Although I've read almost everything from Lewis, this little book -- despite being one of his shortest and simplest -- has become perhaps my favorite. I've read it no fewer than 5x, I think.

 

[SBC]

Peter Kreeft wrote a book entitled:

Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis Aldous Huxley​

Michigan_Bill,

You read Kreeft? We need to meet, one of these days.

 

[gamzultovah]

If you appreciate Dante and ever want to try Lewis, you may enjoy his little The Great Divorce -- a partial and repurposed retelling of the Comedy in which he makes McDonald his Virgil, etc.

Although I've read almost everything from Lewis, this little book -- despite being one of his shortest and simplest -- has become perhaps my favorite. I've read it no fewer than 5x, I think.

Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters are my favorite.