| Author Quoted | George Steiner |
| Title Quoted | Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/12/30 |
| Imprint | New York : Atheneum. 1967 |
| Quotation | I have [James] Mooney's wonderful Ghost Dance book finally and am reading the new George Steiner book [Language and Silence] which critics have to a great extent ignored or treated coldly. Very good. |
| 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. 32 |
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