| Author Quoted | T.S. Eliot |
| Title Quoted | Four Quartets |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1965/08/31 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1943 |
| Quotation | I enclose a long article on existentialism which I did for The Critic ["The Other Side of Despair: Notes on Christian Existentialism"]. (Do you know this magazine? It might be interesting.) The bit for Motive, a magazine you don't know, I imagine, mostly Protestant, published in Nashville, might possibly go with the "Behavior of Titans" stuff. J. wanted a new title for that and I have what I think is a fairly passable one: Raids on the Unspeakable. It is an improvement, I think, on a phrase from Eliot's Four Quartets, "raids on the inarticulate." It sounds a little more sinister, and therefore good for a title. What do you think? |
| Quotation Source | Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1994, p. 147 |
| Letter to | Naomi Burton Stone |
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