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Author QuotedArthur Rimbaud
Title QuotedSeason in Hell
Date (Year/Month/Day)1950/02/25
ImprintNew York : New Directions. 1939
QuotationBob promised me Eliot's Cocktail Party and I am eager to see it. The Novice Master would not let Season in Hell through to his novice who wanted it so I've got it. Rimbaud writes about hell someone earmarked for heaven and I like the book.
Quotation SourceThomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.; Edited by David D. Cooper. / New York: W.W. Norton. 1997, p. 68
Letter toJames Laughlin
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