| Author Quoted | Rene Char |
| Title Quoted | Fureur et mystère / Rene Char ; pref. de Yves Berger |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/09/17 |
| Imprint | [Paris] : Gallimard. [1967] |
| Quotation | Yesterday in the woods I read the whole of Rene Char Feuillets d'Hypnos [Leaves of Hypnos] - powerful, compressed, authentic, rock-like and alive too. (The Sisyphus project of Resistance: necessary and inevitable!) The young murdered husband Roger, who had become to his wife the husband in whom God is given her, made me weep. The nice dog, greeting the Maquisards in silence. The forest fire. The execution in the village, which to save the village, they did not prevent. Thoughts of the young Maquisards. Landscape of resistance. And so much else. I got down what is on the surface of my mind here at the moment. |
| 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. 135 |
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