| Author Quoted | Claude Levi-Strauss |
| Title Quoted | Tristes tropiques / par C. Levi-Strauss |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/11/25 |
| Imprint | Paris : Union generale d'editions. c1955 |
| Quotation | With my meal I was reading Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques. The most "literary" and readable of his books. He is an intelligent and fluent writer, sensitive to real problems, ironic, objective, alert, humane. I like the book. |
| Journal | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 15 |
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