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Author QuotedEric Gill
Title QuotedClothes: An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn by Men and Women
Date (Year/Month/Day)1965/10/13
ImprintLondon : J. Cape. 1931
QuotationReading Isaac of Stella. Disappointed in Eric Gill's book on clothes [Clothes: An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn by Men and Women, 1931]. Can't carry on with it (I was struck by it that Christmas at Fronti in Exeter thirty-three years ago). Will return it to the Hammers. Sun up. Say Prime and cut wood!
Quotation SourceDancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 303
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