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Author QuotedRene Daumal
Title QuotedMount Analogue
Date (Year/Month/Day)1968/05/20
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QuotationEvening. Sun setting over Memphis Airport. I have come in a slow prop plane over flooded Arkansas country from Dallas. Between Albuquerque and Dallas, I finished Mount Analogue, a very fine book. It ends at a strange moment, a sign for the eschatological conscienc"”or it does not end, for the climb has only begun.
Quotation SourceThe 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. 107
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