| Author Quoted | Albert Camus |
| Title Quoted | peste |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/06/01 |
| Imprint | [Paris] : Gallimard. [1947] |
| Quotation | I sit here with a wind breaker on. It is dark. As far as I am concerned it was a good day - quiet. Began writing the booklet on Camus's Plague for Seabury Press. The Plague itself is impressive on second reading. A clearcut job. Reading [Ernst] Benz on Evolution and Hope [Garden City, NY, 1966]. The absurd hope of some nineteenth-century optimists. The future has to be better, man has to become a superman. Article of faith! Every bit as naive as the most naive myths about Adam and Eve. |
| Journal | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 242 |
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