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Date [Source / Page]Author QuotedTitle QuotedQuotation by Merton
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1967/06/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 636]
Albert Camusetranger : roman For me, the turning-on that fails abysmally with Beckett comes with Kafka. I discovered a lot of his little sh..
1967/06/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 636]
Franz Kafkatrial / by Franz Kafka For me, the turning-on that fails abysmally with Beckett comes with Kafka. I discovered a lot of his little sh..
1967/06/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 636]
Henri Lubac, DeTeilhard de Chardin: The Man and His Meaning / transl. R. Hague Commonweal has sent me the De Lubac book on Teilhard to review. I think it will move Teilhard a few blocks clo..
1968/01/20
[Ltrs: HGL p. 640]
Samuel BeckettMore Pricks Than Kicks Beckett arrived in the midst of a flu epidemic and so it happened that last night, being holed in up here in t..
1968/07/29
[Ltrs: HGL p. 648]
James JoyceDubliners Am giving talks on Joyce to the brethren now. I regret anything I may have said that suggested Beckett's stori..
1968/07/29
[Ltrs: HGL p. 648]
James JoyceUlysses Am giving talks on Joyce to the brethren now. I regret anything I may have said that suggested Beckett's stori..

Abbreviations ▲ Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.