Books Cited by Merton

Below is a list of all recorded references by Merton to a book he was reading which were recorded in the seven volumes of his personal journals, the original five volumes of his correspondence, and a growing list of other books by Merton with an emphasis on Merton's published correspondence. The list can be sorted by each column by clicking the column header (another click reverses the sort). Clicking the excerpt of the quote will display a page with the full quote and more information about the quote and book citation.

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Click here to browse subject CATEGORIES which link to related sources.    CLICK ANY COLUMN HEADER TO SORT      CLICK ANY COLUMN HEADER TO SORT    Date [Source] Author Quoted Title Quoted Quotation by Merton [link to full quote] 1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 142-43]   Bhagavad Gita Truthfully I have an enormous obscure subtle thesis that Blake is all full of Indian and Chinese theories of a.. 1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144] James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i.. 1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144] James Joyce Ulysses I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i.. 1939/05/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 3] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions Saint Augustine's problems are everybody's, except he did not have a war to worry him. The 12th chapter [in ot.. 1939/05/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 3] Marcus Tullius Cicero De Oratore Cicero, De Oratore, recommends stamping your foot during your speech. At least at the beginning of the speech .. 1939/05/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 3] William Wordsworth Trosachs [John] Berryman is right about Wordsworth being a good poet. I read his sonnets in the Oxford Book today. "The.. 1939/05/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 4] Benedetto Croce Filosofia di G.B. Vico I suppose I am not reading Croce on Vico very carefully [Note 4: Vico's La Scienza Nuovo (1725) is a philosoph.. 1939/05/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 4] Giambattista Vico Scienza Nuova I suppose I am not reading Croce on Vico very carefully [Note 4: Vico's La Scienza Nuovo (1725) is a philosoph.. 1939/05/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 4] James Joyce Finnigans Wake I suppose I am not reading Croce on Vico very carefully [Note 4: Vico's La Scienza Nuovo (1725) is a philosoph.. 1939/05/12 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 5] Robert Bridges Milton's prosody Last fall I worked hard and today I am up and working too - getting notes on Bridges' Milton's Prosody and eve.. 1939/05/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 11] Herodotus Histories Herodotus [Note 10: Merton was reading Herodotus's Histories, the first great prose work in European literatur.. 1939/08/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 147] Valery Larbaud Amants Heureux Amants I found this French guy Valery Larbaud to be some good guy too. I just got his novel, Amants Heureux Amants, i.. 1939/08/24 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 15] Ezra Pound Culture Ezra Pound's new book Culture is perfectly lousy, his writing disgusting, his opoinions stink, his conceit is .. 1939/09/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 21] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions Because ambitious men are absurd, the same suspiciousness towards ambition literature has fallen upon confessi.. 1939/09/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 21] Blaise Pascal Provincial Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises. / translated by W.F.Trotter, in Great Books of the Western World A model sentence from Pascal. Maybe everyone who wants to write should, before he even starts, consider this s.. 1939/09/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 21] Jean Jacques Rousseau Confessions Because ambitious men are absurd, the same suspiciousness towards ambition literature has fallen upon confessi.. 1939/09/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 22] A.O. Barnabooth Journal Intime. Two Quotations: 1 Valery Larbaud - A.O. Barnabooth, Son Journal Intime, p.121 (cf. yesterday remarks on ambiti.. 1939/09/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 22] Blaise Pascal Provincial Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises. / translated by W.F.Trotter, in Great Books of the Western World 2. Pascal - Pensees - VI.408. "Le mal est aise, il y en a une infinite; le bien, presque unique. Mais en certa.. 1939/09/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 23] Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae The difference: Pascal considering man in the light of the fall, original sin, redemption, etc. recognizes as .. 1939/10/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 151] Thomas Aquinas De Ente et Essentia One of the most extraordinarily difficult things I have ever tried to do is understand St. Thomas' De Ente et .. 1939/10/01 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 37-38] Guillaume Apollinaire Anecdotiques This Afternoon, read a few pages of Guillaume Apollinaire's Anecdotiques up in the library... [p.38] Biograph.. 1939/10/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 40] George Peele Old Wives Tale I did read Peel's "Old Wives Tale" last night and fount it good. Also more of Apollinaire's Anecdotiques - ful.. 1939/10/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 40] Guillaume Apollinaire Anecdotiques I did read Peel's "Old Wives Tale" last night and found it good. Also more of Apollinaire's Anecdotiques - ful.. 1939/10/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 45] Dante Alighieri Paradiso. English & Italian. The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri Began reading Dante's Paradiso today, out of Douglaston, after Mass. More splendid than anything else before i.. 1939/10/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 51] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions About prayer... The past and the future, not real. Only the present is real. In eternity "all is present." (Sa.. 1939/10/16 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 58] Aurelius Augustinus Refutation of the Pernicious Teaching of those who would deter men from entering Religious Life Saint Thomas, in the Opusculum XVII, "Refutation of the Pernicious Teaching of those who would deter men from .. 1939/10/16 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 59] Francis, Saint little flowers of St. Francis. The mirror of perfection. The life of St. Francis On his [Dan Walsh] advice, after he had arranged an interview for me, I went to see Father Murphy, at the mona.. 1939/10/22 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 66] Jules Laforgue Complaintes I think the best modern poetry is being written in France, has been for the last fifty years. Between 1880 and.. 1939/10/31 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 80] Aldous Huxley Those barren leaves 39. "Siena mi fe, disfecemi Maremma." ["Siena gave me life, Maremma took it away."24 ]Dante.Remember it be.. 1939/11/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 84] Thomas Aquinas De Ente et Essentia The value of the distinction in De Ente et Essentia, cap. II, where Plato's separate forms are attacked and di.. 1939/11/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 86] Ezra Pound Lustra Reading my diary for 1931, which I ought to destroy, I am surprised at my childish paganism. Announcing what I.. 1939/11/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 86] T.S. Eliot Waste Land Reading my diary for 1931, which I ought to destroy, I am surprised at my childish paganism. Announcing what I.. 1939/11/19 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 88-89] James Joyce Finnigans Wake Now look you: there have been three important things that have happened this year1. The publication of Finneg.. 1939/11/20 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 92] James Thurber Life and Hard Times I have spent weeks telling my class to write out of their own experience: and they write best when they do, to.. 1939/11/20 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 92] William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale Today I bought Saroyan's Inhale and Exhale and opened it - very exciting and poignant and funny and terrible a.. 1939/11/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 93] William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale It is very interesting and exciting to read Saroyan and it is certain enough that he has some good even if nob.. 1939/12/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 97] Theresa of Avila O.C.D. Interior Castle Saint Theresa [of Avila] - The Interior Castle-says we must not dwell on selfknowledge alone, but pass on from.. 1939/12/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 104] Herbert J.C. Grierson Methaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. The books on my bed are Grierson's Metaphysical Poets, Bossuet (whom I haven't read a line of yet), Saroyan, t.. 1939/12/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 102-03] William Saroyan Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapese and Other Stories Whatever I said about Inhale and Exhale doesn't apply to the Daring Young Man. Very good. Much better than "I... 1939/12/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 102-03] William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale Whatever I said about Inhale and Exhale doesn't apply to the Daring Young Man. Very good. Much better than "I... 1939/12/17 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 106] Federico Garcia Lorca Romancero Gitano. Poema del Cante Jondo. Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias Lorca is easily the best religious poet of this century. I wish I could stop trying to make judgments-"best in.. 1939/12/17 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 108] William Saroyan Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapese and Other Stories To tell the class: important what a writer's attitude towards life is. Cf. the Preface to Daring Young Man, wh.. 1939/12/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 112] Aldous Huxley Those barren leaves I have always had a prejudice against buying a book of short stories. I steered clear of Huxley's Those Barren.. 1939/12/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 121] Herbert J.C. Grierson Methaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. I opened up Grierson's Metaphysical Poets and saw on the page Donne's "Nocturnal upon Saint Lucie's Day": tod.. 1940/01/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 122] Henry Osborn Taylor Medieval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages A New Year-it feels like a New Year: a new decade. In his book about The Medieval Mind [Note 27: Henry Osborn.. 1940/01/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 135] Ignatius of Loyola Spiritual Exercises I have been going through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. Not giving them four hours a day but at a.. 1940/01/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 134] Robert Curzon Visits to Monasteries in the Levant I have got Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant from the Library and right away I am going to read it. The seven.. 1940/01/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 138] Aristotle works of Aristotle / Aristotle ; transl. into English under the editorship of W.D. Ross I guess if I want to I can work this down to the old familiar (to me) dilemma of Plato and Aristotle-which one.. 1940/01/24 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 144] Wystan Hugh Auden Dance of Death W. H. Auden's trick: ratio-announcers: parody of banal radio announcements-parodying trivialities of commercia.. 1940/01/24 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 144] Wystan Hugh Auden On the Frontier W. H. Auden's trick: ratio-announcers: parody of banal radio announcements-parodying trivialities of commercia.. 1940/01/25 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 146] Francis Aidan Gasquet English Monastic Life Gasquet's English Monastic Life [Note 29: Abbot (Cardinal Francis Aidan) Gasquet's (1848-1929) English Monasti.. 1940/01/28 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 9] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion I have just corrected eighty-six English exams in one of which I read: "Chaucer's ABC was a dirty character in.. 1940/01/28 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 9] Bonaventura Itinerarium I have just corrected eighty-six English exams in one of which I read: "Chaucer's ABC was a dirty character in.. 1940/02/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 149] Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer dies the Swan Reading Huxley's new book-After Many a Summer and being very uncomfortable about it-it is so bad... 1940/02/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 150] Irwin Edman Candle in the Dark: A Postscript to Despair Reading Maritain's Introduction to Philosophy and finding it very exciting, stimulating, entertaining, clear, .. 1940/02/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 150] Jacques Maritain Introduction to Philosophy / Translated by E. I. Watkin - Foreword by Ralph McInerny Reading Maritain's Introduction to Philosophy and finding it very exciting, stimulating, entertaining, clear, .. 1940/02/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 153] Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse, Pale Rider I just picked up Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Ann Porter, and read the first story, while the afternoon.. 1940/03/19 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 154] Graham Greene Brighton Rock Graham Greene's Brighton Rock is good all the way from the quotation on the flyleaf, from The Witch of Edmonto.. 1940/03/29 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 159-60] Thomas Philip Terry Terry's Mexico There exists a figure in American literature who is a very interesting sort of figure, in his own strange way,.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 165] Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer dies the Swan All that stuff, since Huxley made such a fool of himself in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, seems to be so .. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 166] D.H. Lawrence Saint Mawr Another thing about this room [in Miami]: it smells like some place where I have read a lot before, some place.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 166] Federico Garcia Lorca Romancero Gitano. Poema del Cante Jondo. Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias I admit freely that I looked at a couple of García Lorca's poems, from the Poema del Cante Jondo, on the beach.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 194] Philip Terry Terry's Guide to Cuba The canonazo (cannon shot) fired from Morro Castle at nine p.m. is the signal for many social functions to sta.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 166] Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Another thing about this room [in Miami]: it smells like some place where I have read a lot before, some place.. 1940/05/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 220] Francis, Saint little flowers of St. Francis. The mirror of perfection. The life of St. Francis Most of the time wrote and wrote: a Journal, longhand, in a ledger. A novel that has perplexed three publisher.. 1940/05/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 219] Ignatius of Loyola Spiritual Exercises Going through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius... 1940/05/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 220] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Most of the time wrote and wrote: a Journal, longhand, in a ledger. A novel that has perplexed three publisher.. 1940/05/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 222] Gregorius the Great Homiliae in Evangelia "It shall happen to you for a testimony" (Luke, xxi. 13) and Saint Gregory the Great makes the comment that a.. 1940/05/28 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 224] Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain / translation from German Der Zauberberg I am in no mood to read [Thomas Mann's] The Magic Mountain, which is the kind of book I find tedious anyway. I.. 1940/06/16 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 8] Aurelius Augustinus City of God Meanwhile I sit in the sun and look at the trees and wear a white tennis hat and wait for it to be August. I h.. 1940/10/19 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 238-39] William Empson Seven types of ambiguity by William Empson Some of the errata listed in the English Edition of Seven Types of Ambiguity are funny. To excuse one sentence.. 1940/10/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 240-41] Bonaventura Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi [After several quotations from S.Bonaventura commentaria in librum secuncum sententiarum] Visio beatifica: the.. 1940/10/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 243]   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight again today and it is one of the best books in the world, the gayest and .. 1940/11/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 247-48] Bonaventura Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi "Infinitum dicitur dupliciter, scilicet per privationem perfectionis; et sic materia dicitur infinita, et tali.. 1940/11/03 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 250] John Donne Poems of John Donne / ed. H.J.C. Griesron The other thing I have just understood for the first time is Donne's Ecstasy. I have been reading it for years.. 1940/11/03 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 250-51] Robert Herrick Hesperides: or the Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. / British Poets, edited by F.J. Child Another thing: I am no longer sore at Herrick, or not as sore as I was. I think he is a Highschool boy, yes. B.. 1940/11/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 256] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner The first time I ever read the Ancient Mariner was in Saint Antonin, when I was about eleven. The Mayor's olde.. 1940/11/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 259] Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling A week ago today I bought Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling at the Oxford University Press, and have since talk.. 1940/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 262] Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling I have read more of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. Fr. Philotheus laughed uproariously for happiness when I.. 1940/12/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 275] Bonaventura Itinerarium For Saint Bonaventure there is no distinction between charity and sanctifying grace. Charity is sanctifying gr.. 1941/01/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 283] Leon Bloy Celle qui pleure. Notre Dame de la Salette Foolishly I talked about Bloy's book Celle qui Pleure [She Who Weeps] and the old lady thought, concerning the.. 1941/01/16 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 291-295] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion [Eleven quotations of Saint Anselm Proslogion Cap. I, c. 226-236] d.d. januari 14-16, 1941.. 1941/01/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 296] Leon Bloy Woman Who Was Poor I will go back to reading the The Woman Who Was Poor. And the Woman Who Was Poor is some novel! The second par.. 1941/02/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 481] Paul Valery Variety "In numerous minds is to be found the coexistence of faith and atheism, of anarchy in the sentiments and of so.. 1941/02/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 304] Dante Alighieri Inferno. English & Italian. The Inferno of Dante Alighieri But it is still the best epic poem, the best poem, I ever read - I mean the wholeDivine Comedy... 1941/02/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 301] T.S. Eliot Waste Land This morning, sitting alone at a big empty table in the vasty hall of the caf' I reflected upon the elegant wo.. 1941/02/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 305] Dylan Thomas 18 Poems I've got a book of poems by Dylan Thomas and I can't put the book down. I read him in Horizon and it was a goo.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 307] Bonaventura Itineris Mentis in Deum Long quotation of S. Bonaventura Itineris Mentis in Deo. Cap. II.7... 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] E.M. Forster Passage to India That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] Richard Hughes In Hazard That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] Robert Bridges Milton's prosody That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] Robert Curzon Visits to Monasteries in the Levant That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/03/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 317] Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Then tonight I read Robinson Crusoe and when he comes on the island I was knocked flat at the wonder of what a.. 1941/03/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 320-21] Bonaventura Itineris Mentis in Deum Long quotations from S. Bonaventura Itin. Ment. in Deum. Cap III... 1941/03/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 328] Bonaventura Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi Saint Bonaventure on the problem of the relation of the intellect, memory and will, to the substance of the so.. 1941/04/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 337] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo S. BERNARDI DE DILIGENDO DEO.Causa diligendi Deum, Deus est; modus, sine modo diligere. Cap. 1. ["The cause o.. 1941/04/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 337] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ And they must; that is part of His kindness: for if church windows and psalms and hymns always filled us, ever.. 1941/04/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 339] Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae The process may take days-or years. We think we possess some idea; then, by a series of accidents, through a l.. 1941/04/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 338-39] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ "Write My words in thy heart, and think diligently on them; for they will be very necessary in the time of tem.. 1941/04/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 342-453] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo Several quotations from Bernard of Clairvaux. De Diligendo Deo.. 1941/04/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 356] Etienne Gilson Spirit of Medieval Philosophy Leaving Gethsemani was very sad....I went to the Cathedral [of Louisville], then to the Public Library: there .. 1941/04/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 356] Evelyn Waugh They were still dancing Leaving Gethsemani was very sad....I went to the Cathedral [of Louisville], then to the Public Library: there .. 1941/04/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 357] Graham Greene Journey without Maps Difference between the First and Second Times I spent a few hours in Louisville, between trains...The first t.. 1941/05/05 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 360] Graham Greene Another Mexico Also I had just finished reading Greene's book about Mexico. The one about Africa, that I glanced at in Louisv.. 1941/05/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 364] P. Mandonnet Dante le Theologien. Introduction à l'intelligence de la Vie, des Oevres et de l'Art de Dante Alighieri Then I was less happy reading Mandonnet's "Dante le Theologien." It makes you slightly unhappy to read a guy .. 1941/05/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 366] Etienne Gilson Spirit of Medieval Philosophy An argument I had with Bill Fineran in the Gold Rail Bar, in 1936; I was attacking the Church, and said the ex.. 1941/06/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 376] George Gordon Coulton From Saint Francis to Dante I just refrained from heaving out the window the only book I've tried to read in weeks except stuff about Dant.. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 377] F.W. Bateson ed. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature I am distressed at having to pay so much attention to things like Mudge's Guide to Reference Books but other b.. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 378] Graham Greene Another Mexico Right this minute I am inclined to think G. Greene's book about Mexico is better than Brighton Rock, and also .. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 378] Graham Greene Brighton Rock Right this minute I am inclined to think G. Greene's book about Mexico is better than Brighton Rock, and also .. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 377] Isadore Gilbert Mudge Guide to Reference Books I am distressed at having to pay so much attention to things like Mudge's Guide to Reference Books but other b.. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 377] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos The other night I read some of Saint John of the Cross' Cantico Espiritual which I understood much better than.. 1941/07/06 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 379] Federico Garcia Lorca Así que pasen cinco años I also like Lorca's "Así que Pasen Cinco Años." The rugby player, the child and the cat (some scene) the mann.. 1941/07/06 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 378] Jean Cocteau Grand Ecart Today I reread the scene where Jacques and Germaine quarrel over the stupid lines from Victor Hugo, "Gall, ama.. 1941/07/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 379] Etienne Gilson God and Philosophy "True metaphysics does not culminate in a concept, be it that of thought, of good, of one or of substance. It .. 1941/08/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 383] Edward Leen Progress through Mental Prayer A cleric lends me Leen's Progress through Mental Prayer which is pretty good... 1941/08/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 385-86] Leon Bloy Invendable. I am not as sore at religious as the Baroness [is]-or Leon Bloy. No reason why I should not be except for the .. 1941/08/28 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 386] Leon Bloy Salut par les Juifs "Les Juifs ne se convertiront que lorsque Jesus sera descendu de sa Croix, et precisement Jesus ne peut en des.. 1941/08/31 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 389] Leon Bloy Dans les Tenèbres "Entre l'homme, revêtu involontairement de sa liberte, et Dieu depouille volon-tairement de sa puissance, l'an.. 1941/09/01 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 392] Damon Runyon Damon Runyon Omnibus I read Damon Runyon whom I never, until this, read. He is good because of his style. I laughed more at him tod.. 1941/09/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 394-402] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Several quotations of De Imitatio Christi of Thomas a Kempis in Latin with English translation.. 1941/09/05 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 402] Leon Bloy Dans les Tenèbres I just finished reading Bloy's Dans le Tenebres. One of the things I liked best about it was his wife's prefac.. 1941/09/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 409] Leon Bloy Mon Journal Leon Bloy's Vocation (in a letter-Mon Journal, p. 71.)"Pourquoi ne supposeriez-vous pas que ma vocation est p.. 1941/09/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 410] Coventry Patmore Poems In spite of a stupid, pompous, inanity stuck in the front of the Phoenix Library Edition of [Coventry] Patmore.. 1941/09/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 417] Aurelius Augustinus De Beata Vita Where did all the rest of the time go-? I taught two classes, corrected some papers, read a few pages of [Chri.. 1941/09/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 417] Christopher Dawson Progress and Religion. A Historical Inquiry Where did all the rest of the time go-? I taught two classes, corrected some papers, read a few pages of [Chri.. 1941/09/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 417] Francis Aidan Gasquet Henri VIII and the English Monasteries And yet I have done altogether too much sleeping with my face in a book-today I went to sleep in Chapter I of .. 1941/10/03 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 421-22] Aldous Huxley Gray Eminence It would not be true to say I got mad reading the review of Huxley's new book Gray Eminence in Time... I don'.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 431-32] Henri Gheon Sainte Therèse de Lisieux I have just read straight through Gheon's book about Saint Theresa of Lisieux and am knocked out by it complet.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 434] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers The Ascent of Mount Carmel and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and the "Book of Job" and the Dark Night of t.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 433] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers But in any case, one thing is clear (while it is impossible to grasp the seriousness of her sacrifice of heave.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 434] Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling The Ascent of Mount Carmel and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and the "Book of Job" and the Dark Night of t.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435]   Mabinogion What is being talked about in the Mabinogion is more like Homer than Keats or Hugo, and therefore it is Romant.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] Frank Laurence Lucas Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal I read in F. L. Lucas' Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal a series of quotations illustrating the term "Ro.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] John Keats Eve of St. Agnes Keats takes the content of his imagination and builds a fairy palace and invites himself to a poor substitute .. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment Coleridge sometimes gets up to the heights of real myth,too. Keats, seldom. Coleridge, like a surrealist, desc.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge sometimes gets up to the heights of real myth,too. Keats, seldom. Coleridge, like a surrealist, desc.. 1941/10/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 436-37] Frank Laurence Lucas Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal "I like Blake often, but I like Hardy better." This, which is not the best written short sentence in the Engl.. 1941/10/12 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 437-38] Ivor Armstrong Richards Coleridge on Imagination Whatever may be wrong with I. A. Richards' notions of Coleridge on Imagination, Lucas is far more wrong about .. 1941/11/01 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 448] Aldous Huxley Gray Eminence I have got Gray Eminence-which seems good so far. There, the big problem is that a man who convinced himself t.. 1941/11/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 476] Charles Baudelaire Fleurs du mal In all evil, there is something holy perverted. The dialectic between the good that underlies evil and the evi.. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 454-55] Aldous Huxley Ends and Means I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Etienne Gilson Spirit of Medieval Philosophy I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Evelyn Underhill Mysticism. Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] G.F. Lahey Gerard Manley Hopkins I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Jacques Maritain Art and Scholasticism I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Leon Wieger Bouddhisme chinois I was reading about Hopkins' conversion when I dropped the book and rushed out of the house and went to see Fr.. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 456] Lewis Mumford Culture of Cities Or do I want to go to Gethsemani because it is a perfect society, even in the natural order? Is it because las.. 1942/11/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 166] Teresa of Avila Autobiography All these things I read in St. Augustine: the Commentary on the Psalms, the Book on the Sermons on the Mount, .. 1945/19/27 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 20] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello I read much Duns Scotus, who when it comes to psychology, at any rate, fills in certain big gaps that leave yo.. 1946/03/01 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 9] James Laughlin Some Natural Things Last couple of days before Ash Wednesday, just in time to write and thank you for Some Natural Things which I .. 1946/10/00 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 18] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello Father Timothy [Vander Vennet] remarked to us, in the course of a philosophy class, how much Reverend Father s.. 1946/12/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 31] Johannes Duns Scotus Opus Oxoniense I have been reading Duns Scotus's Oxoniense III, distinction 18, on Christ's will and His love. Scotus is real.. 1947/01/12 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 36] Edmond Martène Voyage Litteraire de Deux Benedictins de la Congragation de Saint Maure / co-author Ursin Durand I am fascinated by [Edmond] Martène and [Ursin] Durand's Voyage Litteraire de Deux Benedictins [Paris, 1717]. .. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 42]   Cloud of Unknowing Tomorrow I begin the retreat. Yesterday I read a couple of chapters of The Cloud of Unknowing. Every time I pi.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] Johannes Duns Scotus Opus Oxoniense Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] John of the Cross Living Flame of Love Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] Marie Michel Philipon Doctrine Spirituelle de Soeur Elisabeth de La Trinite Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] Pieter Meer de Walcheren, van der Paradis Blanc Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 46] John of the Cross Living Flame of Love St. John of the Cross' Cautions are my food for this retreat and there couldn't be anything better as a prepar.. 1947/03/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 46] John of the Cross Precautions St. John of the Cross' Cautions are my food for this retreat and there couldn't be anything better as a prepar.. 1947/03/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 50] John of the Cross Precautions For the rest of my religious life I want with God's help to dispose myself for His work in me, to which I am n.. 1947/03/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 54] Godefroid Belorgey Pratique de l'oraison mentale. T1: Oraisons ordinaires. T2 Oraisons mystiques There Dom Godefroid [Belorgey]'s Chapters in the morning generally have something in them to keep souls direct.. 1947/03/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 53] John of the Cross Precautions The visitation is in full swing. If I had kept my resolution about following the Cautions of St. John of the C.. 1947/04/29 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 69] Un Religieux Chartreux La Vie Contemplative son rôle apostolique I read a little pamphlet from Parkminster on the contemplative, his place in the Church (not La Vie Contemplat.. 1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v.. 1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v.. 1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v.. 1947/05/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 73] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo I read some St. Bernard [of Clairvaux] on the Mystical Marriage. The tenth chapter of De Diligendo Deo [On the.. 1947/05/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 73] Bernardus of Clairvaux Sermones in Cantica Canticorum I read some St. Bernard [of Clairvaux] on the Mystical Marriage. The tenth chapter of De Diligendo Deo [On the.. 1947/05/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 76]   Meditations Cartusiennes pour tous les jours de l'annee. Three Volumes From Parkminster came three volumes of Meditations Cartusiennes. I did not think I would find anything in them.. 1947/06/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 85] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos However, I see nothing for me to write that is not simply a song about His Love and about contemplation. Every.. 1947/06/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 86]   Meditations Cartusiennes pour tous les jours de l'annee. Three Volumes In the four weeks since Pentecost I have found much valuable help in those little books of Meditations Cartusi.. 1947/08/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 98] Casimir Gaillardin Les Trappistes, ou, L'ordre de Citeaux au XIX siècle: l'histoire de la Trappe depuis sa fondatione jusque'à nos jours Anselme Dimier's La Sombre Trappe [Paris, 1946] creates the impression it proposes to want to dispel: that the.. 1947/08/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 98] Anselm Dimier La Sombre Trappe. Les legendes et la verite Anselme Dimier's La Sombre Trappe [Paris, 1946] creates the impression it proposes to want to dispel: that the.. 1947/08/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 104] William of St. Thierry Expositio Altera in Cantica I thought for a moment, and with nostalgia, of the old days when I got so much consolation out of the Cisterci.. 1947/09/07 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 105] Guigo I Meditations I don't think as much of Guigo I's Meditations as I once thought I might. Very lapidary, but not on an interes.. 1947/09/07 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 105] Paul Claudel Connaisance de l'Est Paul Claudel's verse bores me but his poetic prose about the Orient is wonderful. I have never read anything a.. 1947/09/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 111] Bonaventura Itinerarium The Feast of his Stigmatization coincides for us with the transferred Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cros.. 1947/10/16 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 125] Patrice Tour du Pin, de la Dedicated Life and Poetry Laughlin sent Patrice de la Tour du Pin's Dedicated Life and Poetry [which appeared as part of La Somme de Poe.. 1947/10/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 127] Patrice Tour du Pin, de la Dedicated Life and Poetry I have tried again to read Patrice de la Tour du Pin and sometimes find him very antipathetic. All that stuff .. 1947/10/26 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 128]   Cloud of Unknowing The only thing that gave me any relief today was when I looked in The Cloud of Unknowing for a moment at the c.. 1947/11/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 130] Deodat Basly, de Deux grandes ecoles catholiques de B. Duns Scot et de S. Thomas The last two days or so I have been reading Deodat de Basly [Les deux grandes ecoles catholiques de B. Duns Sc.. 1947/11/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 130] Frederick William Faber Growth in Holiness The last two days or so I have been reading Deodat de Basly [Les deux grandes ecoles catholiques de B. Duns Sc.. 1947/11/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 131] Johannes Duns Scotus Opus Oxoniense For the first time I really saw into something of the import of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity in lines from .. 1947/11/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 140] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello The day before the retreat began, two volumes of the Wisques translation (French) of Ruysbroeck arrived [Oeuvr.. 1947/12/16 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 146] Johannes Duns Scotus Reportationes Parisiensis / o.f.m. Reading Duns Scotus' Reportationes III on the Incarnation... 1947/12/16 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 146] Robert Lowell Lord Weary's Castle Yesterday Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell came and it is terrific. Harcourt Brace sent it after I had beg.. 1947/12/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 148] Leon Bloy Woman Who Was Poor The Church at Bricquebec was remodeled by an architect, a converted Communist. And Dom Marie Joseph said he wo.. 1948/02/12 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 167] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello But, on the other hand, I read Ruysbroeck with joy, all about immediate contact with God, "meeting" Him in th.. 1948/02/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 171]   Exordium Magnum Cisterciensae This week I don't think de Rance was as bad as people sometimes say. Reading the Exordium Magnum, I find those.. 1948/02/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 170] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo The Lenten Book (De Diligendo Deo) is, from the point of view of my own interest and alertness to its value, t.. 1948/02/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 172] Jean Berthold Mahan Ordre cistercien et son gouvernement, des origines au milieu du XIIIe siecle (1098-1265) I looked at the new history by Jean Berthold Mahan [L'Ordre cistercien et son gouvernement, des origines au mi.. 1948/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 175] Marbodus Redonensis Opuscula Yesterday I discovered that there were marvelous poets in the 12th century. I never knew it except by vague he.. 1948/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 175] Vital Lehodey Saint Abandon Sunday night I got two hours' sleep and Monday I was staggering around in a fog. With trembling hands I took d.. 1948/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 176] William of St. Thierry Speculum Fidei Nos adoramus quod scimus. [We adore what we know.] I wonder if William of St. Thierry quotes that. He ought to.. 1948/03/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 183] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets After dinner I sat here in the sun and read T. S. Eliot's Four Quartet, or rather East Coker and part of The D.. 1948/03/25 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 191] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: meditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte One of the big graces of Holy Week came by surprise yesterday. External graces almost always do come that way,.. 1948/03/28 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 194] Wilhelm Schamoni Face of the Saints In the library I lookesd at that marvelous book The Faces of the Saints [by Wilhelm Schamoni, London, 1948], p.. 1948/04/11 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 198] John of the Cross Precautions I read over St. John of the Cross' Cautions, which were the things I had in mind to keep when I made solemn pr.. 1948/04/25 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 199] Marcel Aubert Architecture cistercienne en France The two volumes of Marcel Aubert on Cistercian architecture in France finally arrived. Fr. Anselme Dimier got .. 1948/05/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 205] Matthias Joseph Scheeben Mysteries of Christianity I looked into [Matthias Joseph] Scheeben's Mysteries of Christianity [St. Louis,1946] and found some good page.. 1948/05/17 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 206-06] Godefroid Belorgey Humilite Benedictine But providentially Dom Godefroid Belorgey's new book, L'Humilite Benedictine [Paris, 1948], came in at that mo.. 1948/05/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 206] Marcel Aubert Architecture cistercienne en France I am reading the Aubert book on Cistercian Architecture, and it is fine. I think of those monasteries. I am tr.. 1948/05/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 208] Giovanni Papini Letters of Pope Celestine VI Fr. Raymond lent me [Giovanni] Papini's new book, The Letters of Pope Celestine VI [New York, 1948], and altho.. 1948/05/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 209] Godefroid Belorgey Humilite Benedictine In Dom Godefroid's book on humility I find out a lot about the real life and spirit of our Order, the life tha.. 1948/06/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 210] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets I wouldn't mind being recognized as a poet if I really were a poet. But it gives me comfort to read poets who .. 1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5] Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if .. 1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5] Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if .. 1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5] James Joyce Ulysses I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if .. 1948/08/04 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 39] James Laughlin Poems : selections : a small book of poems / James Laughlin Yesterday Father Abbot gave me your package of books on St. John of the X from Paris and your small book of po.. 1948/08/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 227] John of the Cross Precautions Tomorrow we choose the one who is to lead us for a certain time to God, to make saints of us. I got time to th.. 1948/09/03 [Ltrs: CforT p. 6] Robert Graves and Alan Hodges Reader over Your Shoulder It has been quite humiliating for me to find out (from [Robert] Graves and [Alan] Hodge [authors of The Reader.. 1948/09/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 229] Robert Graves and Alan Hodges Reader over Your Shoulder One good thing. Evelyn Waugh sent me a fine book to help me to write better, The Reader over Your Shoulder by .. 1948/09/07 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 230] David Knowles o.s.b. Religious Orders in England In Dom David Knowles' new book (Religious Orders in England [volume I of 3, Cambridge, 1948]) I found a few fi.. 1948/09/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 233] Bonaventura Itinerarium Day and night I think about St. Francis and about poverty as I re-read the seventh chapter of St. Bonaventure'.. 1948/10/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 239] Gerald Ellard Christian Life and Worship This morning I got the idea that perhaps I ought to be reading something about the subdiaconate, since my ordi.. 1948/10/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 240] John of the Cross Obras de San Juan de la Cruz / edit. y anot. por P. Silverio de Santa Teresa Beautiful stuff in a Letter of St. John of the Cross to the Nuns of Beas (Carta V) [Letter 5, vol. 3]:Veremos.. 1948/11/03 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188] Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S. I Sing of a Maiden I would like to assure you that I was very glad to get that beautiful big book, I Sing of a Maiden & the only .. 1948/11/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188] Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S. Give Joan a Sword It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your last one, .. 1948/11/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188] Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S. I Sing of a Maiden It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your last one, .. 1948/11/22 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 44-45] Ezra Pound Pisan Cantos I agree about nog having enough form, but I can't figure out how I am going to acquire any: but thanks for the.. 1949/01/29 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 273]   Rituel Propre de l'Abaye de Cisteaux I was reading in the Rituel Propre de Cîteaux that at Cîteaux they read nothing but St. Bernard at the reading.. 1949/02/09 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 279] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes Into the middle of all this came [Antonin] Sertillanges' La Vie Intellectuelle [Paris, 1944] which might have .. 1949/02/10 [Ltrs: CforT p. 24] F.D. Joret o.p. Dominican Life But in any case, what amused me was that the Father who wrote the article asserted that "the degree of union w.. 1949/02/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 280] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes Now"”about La Vie Intellectuelle-it would be a nice feat to prove that it is not diametrically opposed to St. .. 1949/02/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 281] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes On the other hand there could be a way of being humble and following Sertillanges, and nobody can say whether .. 1949/02/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 283] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes More pages in Sertillanges that made me laugh"”the ones about getting up in the middle of the night to scribbl.. 1949/02/24 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 305] F.D. Joret o.p. Dominican Life Talking about the active apostolate: the Thomist got after me for something I said. I felt it was rather flatt.. 1949/03/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 287] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Yesterday Seeds of Contemplation arrived and it is very handsome. The best job of printing that has ever been .. 1949/04/07 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 30] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: méditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Have a good Holy Week and Easter. Do you know that marvelous book, "le Mystère de Pascal" by Louis Bouyer? It .. 1949/04/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 302] Johannes Tauler Sermons de Tauler : traduction sur les plus anciens manuscrits allemands / par les RR. PP. Hugueny, Thery, O. P. et A. L. Corin There are also a lot of good things in [Johannes] Tauler whom I like very much-when he is explained by notes l.. 1949/05/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 306] David Knowles o.s.b. Religious Orders in England I remember also the fragments of information I have heard about Dom David Knowles who is a much subtler and mo.. 1949/05/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 192] William of St. Thierry Golden Epistle I am busy trying to learn how to say Mass. My health is all right, except that I have a vile cold at the momen.. 1949/05/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 314] John of the Cross Living Flame of Love I can't read anything but St. John of the Cross. I opened The Living Flame at the line Rompe la tela de este d.. 1949/07/09 [Ltrs: CforT p. 25] Jean-Baptiste Porion Sainte Trinite et la Vie Intereure Dom Porion sent me his delightful book on the Holy Trinity and the interior life, and on every page I found ec.. 1949/07/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 333] Jean-Baptiste Porion Sainte Trinite et la Vie Intereure Dom Porion sent me a little book he wrote anonymously, La Sainte Trinite et la Vie Interieure [Paris, 1948], a.. 1949/07/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 339-40] Johannes Tauler Sermons de Tauler : traduction sur les plus anciens manuscrits allemands / par les RR. PP. Hugueny, Thery, O. P. et A. L. Corin I have found many good things in Hugeny's Theological Introduction to his translation of Tauler [Sermons de Ta.. 1949/07/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 11] Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited The Month has been paying me for my effusions by sending me books. One of them was The Loved One. I was having.. 1949/07/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 11] Evelyn Waugh Loved One The Month has been paying me for my effusions by sending me books. One of them was The Loved One. I was having.. 1949/08/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 344] Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae The short Prologue of St. Thomas to his Summa Theologiae is a very beautiful paragraph containing a whole disc.. 1949/08/05 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 345-46] Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Gospel of St. John I find an interesting passage in St. Thomas' commentary on St. John, Chapter I (Lectio XIV), the place where J.. 1949/08/11 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 353] Paul Philippe O.P. Très Sainte Vierge et le Sacerdoce To my great joy, Fr. Paul Philippe's book, La Très Sainte Vierge et le Sacerdoce [Paris, 1947] arrived the day.. 1949/08/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 357] L.C. Fillion Study of the Bible [Louis Claude] Fillion, a Scripture scholar whom I am appointed to read, encourages young priests to study Heb.. 1949/08/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 359] Aurelius Augustinus Exposition on the Book of Psalms And I was turning over in my mind some sentences from St. Augustine's commentary on the 118th psalm. They conc.. 1949/08/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 360] L.C. Fillion Study of the Bible My friend, the Abbe Fillion, has written a book that is in some ways strange. However, it is very good-especia.. 1949/08/26 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 362] L.C. Fillion Study of the Bible My pious Abbe Fillion suggests that, when we are stumped and cannot find out the meaning of a passage of Scrip.. 1949/09/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 367] John Chapman Spiritual Letters I find consoling lines here and there in Dom Chapman's Spiritual Letters [The Spiritual Letters of Dom John Ch.. 1949/11/19 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 62] Franz Kafka Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 / Collected and translated from German by Max Brod Thanks for the Rilke. I am still entranced with Kafka's diaries [Note: Kafka's Diaries: The Diaries of Franz K.. 1949/11/19 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 62] Kenneth Patchen Selected Poems Thanks for the Rilke. I am still entranced with Kafka's diaries [Note: Kafka's Diaries: The Diaries of Franz K.. 1949/11/25 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 373] Gregory of Nyssa De vita Moysis In the refectory we are reading Exodus and I have discovered St. Gregory of Nyssa's De Vita Moysis [Life of Mo.. 1949/12/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 374] Kenneth Patchen Dark Kingdom Kenneth Patchen's "For losing her love all would I profan" struck me with great force and after a moment I re.. 1949/12/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 375] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos There is supposed to be a special group coming to the vault after Benediction on Sundays and Feasts to talk ab.. 1949/12/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 377] Rainer Maria Rilke Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge I am abashed by the real solitude of Rilke which I admire, knowing, however, it is not for me because I am not.. 1949/12/17 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 380] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos Walking back from the barns in the warm sun on the muddy road between the orchard and the vegetable garden wit.. 1949/12/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 380-81] Rainer Maria Rilke Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rilke's Notebooks have so much power in them that they make me wonder why no one writes like that in monasteri.. 1949/12/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 384] Aurelius Augustinus City of God St. Augustine, of Adam in Eden: vivebat fruens Deo, ex quo bono erat bonus [He lived in the joy of God, and by.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390]   Cloud of Unknowing I like Kenneth Patchen's Dark Kingdom, but it does not do anything beyond interesting the surface of my mind. .. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Dom Alexis Presse Bela Just: Les Illumines I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Evelyn Waugh Loved One I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Graham Greene Heart of the Matter I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Kenneth Patchen Dark Kingdom I like Kenneth Patchen's Dark Kingdom, but it does not do anything beyond interesting the surface of my mind. .. 1949/12/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 391] Henri Watson Fowler Dictionary of Modern English Usage Evelyn Waugh got Burns, of Hollis and Carter, to send me a copy of Ward Fowler's Modern English Usage as an in.. 1950/00/00 [Ltrs: SofC p. 19] John of the Cross Precautions I had been hoping to meditate a little on the Cautions of St. John of the Cross. I have at least glanced throu.. 1950/01/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 392] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec There is a beautiful passage on manual labor in La Mort de Jean Madec. It tells me one reason why I like the b.. 1950/01/09 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 396-97] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec Reading the sixth chapter of La Mort de Jean Madec-where Blaise is summoned before the conseil de discipline [.. 1950/01/12 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 399] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec La Mort de Jean Madec is a magnificent tract against angelism. It is a tract on transcendence and immanence. I.. 1950/01/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 401] Bernardus of Clairvaux Sermones de Diversis St. Bernard's Sermon 110, De Diversis, which I stumbled on just now by accident when I set out to look for the.. 1950/01/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 401] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec St. Bernard's Sermon 110, De Diversis, which I stumbled on just now by accident when I set out to look for the.. 1950/01/27 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 403] Bernardus of Clairvaux Epistolae Opera Omnia The more I read St. Bernard and the Cistercian Fathers, the more I like them. There was a time when I was temp.. 1950/01/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 15] Henri Watson Fowler Dictionary of Modern English Usage It is some time since I have given an account of myself. [Tom] Burns sent a copy of Fowler and I am very grate.. 1950/01/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404]   Didachè "Let grace come and let the world pass away. Hosanna to the Son of David." These words are from the Didache. .. 1950/01/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec The Greeks say that interior silence is not perfect unless it is centered upon the Name of Jesus. For they do .. 1950/01/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404-05] Bernardus of Clairvaux Sermones de Diversis Hesychasm-is that the English word for it?-has been my latest discovery. I came across it in the Etudes Carmel.. 1950/01/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404-05] John Cassian Joannis Cassiani Opera omnia cum amplissimis commentariis Alardi Gazæi in hoc parisiensi editione, contra quam in lipsiensi, textui continenter ad majorem commoditatem lectoris subjacentibus Hesychasm-is that the English word for it?-has been my latest discovery. I came across it in the Etudes Carmel.. 1950/02/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 411] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets I came out of choir yesterday morning after the distribution of the ashes and put on our shoes and socks in th.. 1950/02/25 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 68] Arthur Rimbaud Season in Hell Bob promised me Eliot's Cocktail Party and I am eager to see it. The Novice Master would not let Season in Hel.. 1950/03/01 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 413]   Song of Roland So [Book of] Josue is my favorite epic. I like it better than The Iliad, infinitely better than Virgil or the .. 1950/03/01 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 413] Homer Iliad / Translated by Robert Fitzgerald So [Book of] Josue is my favorite epic. I like it better than The Iliad, infinitely better than Virgil or the .. 1950/04/08 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 429] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: meditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Louis Bouyer has a marvelous chapter on the connection between the Resurrection and the founding of the Church.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 20] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La theologie mystique de Saint Bernard That is why I feel that your works are so tremendously helpful, dear Father. Your St. Bernard Mystique is alto.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 7] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La théologie mystique de Saint Bernard Your St. Bernard mystique is altogether admirable because, while being simple and fluent, it communicates to t.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 7] Jean Leclercq St. Bernard mystique Your St. Bernard mystique is altogether admirable because, while being simple and fluent, it communicates to t.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 20] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. St. Bernard mystique That is why I feel that your works are so tremendously helpful, dear Father. Your St. Bernard Mystique is alto.. 1950/05/20 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 71]   Bhagavad Gita Somebody sent me the Bhagavad-Gita and I am very interested in it. I think the trouble with Hinduism is not in.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 24] Jean Danielou Platonisme et theologie mystique. Essay sur la doctrine spirituelle de Saint Gregoire de Nysse I wish I could give you some information on St. Bernard in his relation to the Greek Fathers. I have none of m.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 25] Jean Danielou Signe du temple ou De la presence de Dieu I am extremely eager to get Fr. Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not yet been able to do so. I feel .. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 22] Jean Daniélou Platonisme et théologie mystique. Essay sur la doctrine spirituelle de Saint Grégoire de Nysse I wish I could give you some information on St. Bernard in his relation to the Greek Fathers. I have non of my.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 24] Jean Daniélou Signe du temple ou De la présence de Dieu I am extremely eager to get Fr. [Louis] Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not been able to do so. I l.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 23] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. St. Bernard mystique Your remarks on St. Bernard's ideas of Scripture are extremely important to me. I have been meditating on your.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 25] Louis Bouyer Vie de saint Antoine par saint Athanase I am extremely eager to get Fr. Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not yet been able to do so. I feel .. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 24] Louis Bouyer Vie de saint Antoine par saint Athanase I am extremely eager to get Fr. [Louis] Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not been able to do so. I l.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 23] Vladimir Lossky Essay de la theologie mystique de l'Eglise d'Orient Your remarks on St. Bernard's ideas of Scripture are extremely important to me. I have been meditating on your.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 19] Vladimir Lossky Essay de la théologie mystique de l'eglise d'Orient Your remarks on St. Bernard's ideas of Scripture are extremely important to me... I think he is acting as a th.. 1950/10/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 435] Pierre Emmanuel Qui est cet homme? There are times when ten pages of some book fall under your eye just at the moment when your very life, it see.. 1950/11/22 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 79] Karl Stern Pillar of Fire They have been keeping me here in the hospital for some time, mainly to make me rest.... Father Abbot dropped .. 1950/12/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 444] John of the Cross Precautions I am haunted by the Cautelas of St. John of the Cross. Especially the second, against the flesh, against solic.. 1950/12/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 445] Henry David Thoreau Walden or Life in the Woods After those beautiful pages on morning and on being awake, Thoreau writes in his Walden: "I went to the woods .. 1950/12/08 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 446] Henry David Thoreau Walden or Life in the Woods Compare the basic asceticism in Walden with that of St. John of the Crossagreement on the fundamental idea-not.. 1950/12/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 18] Evelyn Waugh Helena This letter has two purposes: to thank you for Helena and to wish you a holy Christmas"”and even a merry one, .. 1951/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 452] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers Shall I re-read the bits in The Ascent of Mount Carmel about the memory? They seem to do me so much good-alway.. 1951/04/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 454] Jean Cayrol Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard camps. When first arrested, they dreamt they had not been arrested but had escaped. Then, resigned to their ar.. 1952/01/02 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 88] Grenville Clarc Plan for Peace I hope you will be saying some special prayers for a man named Grenville Clark up in New Hampshire. He has wri.. 1952/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 19] Charles Journet Dark Knowledge of God / translated from the French by James F. Anderswon About apophatic"”although it is not in the OED it does crop up in English, though in translations of French bo.. 1952/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 18-19] Ronald Knox Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion with Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries Many thanks for your very kind letter and for [Ronald Knox's] Enthusiasm . I entirely agree with your comment .. 1952/08/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 10] Louis Bouyer Bible et l'Evangile. Le sens de l'Ecriture: du Dieu qui parle au Dieu faite homme Bouyer's book Bible et evangile is brilliant but makes me nervous. Marmion never made anybody nervous but he d.. 1953/01/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 29] Max Picard World of Silence Fine ideas in Picard's World of Silence. (A train of the old time sings in my present silence, at St. Anne's, .. 1953/02/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 36] Marie-Eugène de l'Enfant Jesus, O.C.D. Je suis fille d'eglise Yesterday, began our Lenten book, Je suis fille d'eglise [I Am a Daughter of the Church, by P. Marie-Eugène, O.. 1953/04/07 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 24] Mark Van Doren Spring Birth and Other Poems It was wonderful to get the letter and the book [Spring Birth and Other Poems], which both arrived long enough.. 1953/04/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 151] Jacques Maritain Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry Someone sent me Maritain's new book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, and it seems to be very fine... 1953/04/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 150] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro.. 1953/04/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 150] T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro.. 1953/05/10 [Ltrs: SofC p. 57] Joseph Creusen Religious Men and Women in the Code The main thing Dom Louis did was to make clear the fact that the Prior takes care of all the material needs of.. 1953/05/18 [Ltrs: SofC p. 59] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. St. Bernard mystique I am not doing any work on a book on St. Bernard and there has been no announcement of any such book; hence I .. 1953/05/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 213] Max Picard Flight from God Have you read Max Picard? I like his stuff very much and am currently in the Flight from God which is very per.. 1953/06/20 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 155] Jean Rounault Nightmare / pseudonym of Rainer Biemel Then also the book Nightmare finally got to me through the iron curtain and I have read bitds of it. Rounault,.. 1953/08/21 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 36] Jean Leclercq Dottrina del Beato Paolo Giustiniani Above all I want to thank you for your Doctrina del B.P. Giustiniani. I find it most useful and am glad tot ha.. 1953/10/19 [Ltrs: SofC p. 67] Lucille Hasley Reproachfully Yours When he came back from the General Chapter, our Reverend Father Dom James spoke to me about the affair of that.. 1953/11/05 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 42] Ildefonso Schuster Vie monastique dans la pensée de Saint Bernard I have been reading with great satisfaction Cardinal Schuster's little volume. It has a very fine tone, and it.. 1953/11/05 [Ltrs: SofC p. 70] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Alone with God It was a satisfaction to me when Father Abbot gave me permission to write the preface for your volume on Paul .. 1954/01/14 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 170] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Consideratione I have been over these proofs [of Last of the Fathers]... I made two significant and rather long additions - t.. 1954/06/05 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 179] Karen Horney Neurosis and human growth : the struggle toward selfrealization I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela.. 1954/06/05 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 179] Karl Stern third revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela.. 1954/10/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 308-09] Erich Fromm Man for himself : an inquiry into the psychology of ethics Some time ago when I was reading your Psychoanalysis and Religion I thought I would write you a letter. Now th.. 1954/10/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 308-09] Erich Fromm Psychoanalysis and religion Some time ago when I was reading your Psychoanalysis and Religion I thought I would write you a letter. Now th.. 1954/10/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 183] Charles Monroe Coffin Major Poets: English and American. Many thanks for the books - Judson, Mumford and Coffin. I am already greatly enjoying the anthology. Suddenly .. 1954/10/16 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 26] Mark Van Doren Selected Poems At last it is raining and I not only have the time to write a letter but am more or less in a mood for one. So.. 1954/11/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 80] Cuthbert Butler o.s.b. Benedictine Monachism: Studies in Benedictine Life and Rule A few weeks ago, by some miracle, we actually started reading Dom Cuthbert Butler's Benedictine Monachism in t.. 1954/11/16 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 186] Karl Stern third revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion Many thanks for the THIRD REVOLUTION. I am half-way through it and I will comment and write to Sern when I hav.. 1954/12/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 218] Rudyard Kipling Just-So Stories However, there is one thing which I treasure and which you also will like. It is an old magazine containing an.. 1955/08/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 220] Evelyn Waugh Officers and Gentlemen Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its w.. 1955/08/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 220] Randell Jarrell Pictures from an Institution Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its w.. 1955/08/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 112] Randell Jarrell Pictures from an Institution You told me Perspectives is closing down. I thought the numbers I saw were very good. Sometimes it occurs to m.. 1955/09/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 314] Erich Fromm Forgotten Language Your book The Forgotten Language, which I read last May or June, also interested me very much... 1955/09/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 313] Erich Fromm Sane Society I am about halfway through The Sane Society which I received some time ago. I am reading it with the greatest .. 1955/09/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 314] Henri Lubac, De Catholicism Most of the Fathers of the Church looked at the Incarnation in that light, and Duns Scotus, for instance, is a.. 1955/10/24 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 19] Denis Grivot Autun How did you like Zodiaque and the book on Autun? The monks who did those books are thinking of publishing some.. 1955/11/26 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 25] Bruno Snell Discovery of the mind: in Greek philosophy and literature The Snell book is here and I have begun it. I can see its great importance, and therefore i ask you to bear wi.. 1955/12/17 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 27] Adolph Konrad Fiedler Vom Wesen der Kunst And now, thank you so much for the Fiedler. It is intensely interesting and thougth provoking. As I had suspec.. 1956/02/05 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 29] Bernard Craplet Auvergne Roman The Benedictines, whose magazines I gave you, have come out with a wonderful volume on Romanesque Art in Auver.. 1956/02/05 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 29] Bruno Snell Discovery of the mind: in Greek philosophy and literature I finally have a chance to write you and tell you that I am sending the Snell book back - long after I had pro.. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Hilda Graef Scholar and the Cross: The Life and Work of Edith Stein Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: meditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Pie Raymond Regamey Cross and the Christian / Translated from the French by Angeline Bouchard Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Pie Raymond Regamey Poverty: An Essential Element in the Christian Life / Translated from the French by Rosemary Sheed Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/05/02 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 134] Graham Greene Quiet American First of all, here are a couple of poems "¦ Matthew Scott is sending the long one to Graham Greene [called "Th.. 1956/05/07 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 114]   Dhammapada For al long time I have been meaning to write about several things. For one, I at last sent off the Dhammappad.. 1956/05/07 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 115] Graham Greene Quiet American I sent Naomi a couple more poems, in fact three of four more. Where did I leave off with the stuff you have? D.. 1956/06/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 123] Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Lax sent me Waiting for Godot which is very funny and I don't see why people are running up and down asking th.. 1956/07/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 47] Stephen Spender Collected Poems Spender's Collected Poems-a most satisfying book. He has done a better job of versifying than Auden. No man sh.. 1956/07/19 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 32] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Manual of Zen Buddhism / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Today I am mailing ack to the Kentucky university library the most interesting "Manual of Zen" by Suzuki. I am.. 1956/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 59] Diadochos of Photike Capita centum de perfectione spirituali Diadochos-"the abyss of faith boils if you examine it, but if you look upon it with simplicity, it becomes onc.. 1956/08/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 62] Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie FROM [VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH] SOLOVIEV "The moral limit to the egoism of a given person is not the egoism of oth.. 1956/08/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 63] Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie Soloviev-The strength of a falsehood insists on the importance of a corresponding truth. "The importance of a .. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 65] Georges Bernanos Last Essays of Georges Bernanos On top of this, [Georges] Bernanos' Last Essays of which at least the last is fine (I have not touched any of .. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 64] Julien Hartridge Green Journals Julien Green's Journal has finally come to absorb me altogether in the sleepy time after dinner when I have to.. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 65] Julien Hartridge Green Journals To be completely dependent on a country, on a city"¦for a moment I was annoyed at Green and started finding fa.. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 64] Origenes Treatise on Prayer. The Treatise on Prayer is the first thing of Origen's that I have really liked except perhaps the Homilies on .. 1956/08/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 66] Emmanuel Mounier Personalism The toughness and integrity of Emmanuel Mounier [Note 7: Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) was a French philosopher.. 1956/08/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 68-69] Emmanuel Mounier Personalism Mounier says (in showing that the idea of person must be defined by the power to communicate - and showing how.. 1956/08/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 70-71] Emmanuel Mounier Personalism It is easy to say of every new idea one meets-"It is all in St. Bernard." It is very doubtful, for instance, .. 1956/09/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 77] Helen Waddell Wandering Scholars The Cistercians of the 12th. century were forbidden to write not only rhyming verse, as Helen Waddell records,.. 1957/00/00 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 84] Hans Urs von Balthasar Presence et pensee. Essay sur la philosophie religieuse de Gregoire de Nysse "Etrefidèle à la Tradition, ce n'est donc pas repeter et transmettre litteralement des theses de philosophie o.. 1957/04/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 86] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Yet one of Berdyaev's greatest mistakes is to reject the Gospel as incomplete and patristic theology as steril.. 1957/04/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 87] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Berdyaev is demanding-as Blake demanded-that man should truly find his liberty in Christ. He is aware that thi.. 1957/05/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 88] Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon "Once, when the great ‘we' still existed, we understood them as one had understood them before. We had penet.. 1957/05/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 88] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Berdyaev, who is always so ready to offend pious ears with statements that are, as they stand, even heretical,.. 1957/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 89] Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' ""¦a clan in radical chains, one of the classes of bourgeois society which does not belong to bourgeois societ.. 1957/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 90] Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' Marx is, in some strange way, an heir of Ezechiel and Jeremias. Not that he is a conscious and willing instrum.. 1957/05/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 92-93] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Long quote from Berdyaev. Le sens de la tradition, 216-17 [W.E.: must probably be Le sens de la creation].. 1957/05/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 94] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet In Theophane Zatvornik, a Russian bishop of the 19th. century, the asceticism of the fathers was revived, says.. 1957/05/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 95] Mikhail Zoshchenko Russia Laughs Good writing and good art are coming to mean much in the salvation of Russia. It is sad that the cultural cont.. 1957/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 101] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Du Verbe incarne : (Agnus Dei) / par Serge Boulgakof ; trad. du russe par Constantin Andronikof Bulgakov's explanation of his sophianology (Du verbe incarne, p. 16) seems to me clear and satisfactory. The d.. 1957/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 101] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu Very important for the understanding of Bulgakov-the idea that the Divine Nature constitutes for the Divine Pe.. 1957/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 102] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu "La Sophia est le plerôme, le monde de Dieu existant en Dieu et pour Dieu, eternel et incree, où Dieu vit en .. 1957/08/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 104-05] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu "La Sophie est La Sagesse de Dieu, elle est la gloire de Dieu, est l'humanite en Dieu, elle est la Theanthropi.. 1957/08/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 107] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu I think this morning I found the key to Bulgakov's Sophianism. His idea is that the Divine Sophia, play, wisdo.. 1957/08/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 108] Julien Hartridge Green Journals Finally got the rest of Green's Journals. Their climate is wonderful. I am really at home in it-he is an hones.. 1957/08/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 110-11] Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley The best of Pound is in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley... Sometimes as much like Ogden Nash as he is like Auden. Pound .. 1957/08/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 109] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu Several quotes from Boulgakov's La Sagesse de Dieu, also on the next pages.. 1957/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 112] Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphoses Frankly, Ovid had terrible taste. Yet in the Metamorphoses there are some wonderful things mixed up with ponde.. 1957/09/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 115] Julien Hartridge Green Journals "La religion est mal comprise. Elle rend stupides ceux qui se veulent pieux afin le pouvoir s'admirer dans cet.. 1957/09/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 116] Ludwig Bemelmans Donkey inside No easy generalizations about Job and Zen. Job is a big koan. So is everything else.Best book yet about Ecuad.. 1957/09/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 116] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers Went to Terrell Dickey about layouts for a postulant's pamphlet... He kept kidding me about wanting a modern l.. 1957/09/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 117] Dom Alexis Presse A l'ecole de St. Benoît Dom Alexis Presse-"A l'ecole de St. Benoît" ["In the School of St. Benedict"] has some very nice things-a go.. 1957/09/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 118] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers A Series of sentence fragments from John of the Cross's The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book I, chapter 13, 4-6... 1957/09/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 119] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers And this is what happens to people with a priori notions of what pleases God or "ought" to please Him. (Eatin.. 1957/09/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 120-21] Saint-John Perse Excile: and other Poems I wonder if it is a sin against poverty to read the poems of St. John Perse. They are magnificent. Immensely r.. 1957/09/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 121-22] Saint-John Perse Excile: and other Poems Tremendous religious power and purity of St. John Perse's Rain. Four lines like the prophetic books of Blake, .. 1957/10/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 124-25] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "Whoever seeks Christ without the Church, putting his trust in his own insight and what goes by the name of cr.. 1957/10/12 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 229] Karl Adam Christ of Faith Reading"”I try to do some. A fair amount here and there. I love Karl Adams' new book, The Christ of Faith. And.. 1957/10/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 125] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "The real root of every heresy is to be found not in the sphere of revelation but in the pagan philosophies.".. 1957/10/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 126] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Mirum est quod homo potest umquam perfecte in hac vita laetari, qui suum exilium et tam multa pericula animae .. 1957/10/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 126-27] Tuesday Lobsang Rampa Third Eye. The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama A thrilling and terrifying and fascinating book-The Third Eye by a Tibetan lama who calls himself Rimpoche Ram.. 1957/10/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 128] Arthur Koestler Thieves in the Night How can we sing the psalms, or understand them, if we are not Jews? Psallite sapienter [Sing praises with a ps.. 1957/10/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 130] Georges Bernanos Diary of a Country Priest One reason why it is so hard to read Bernanos' The Diary of a Country Priest is breaking this ghetto wall. Don.. 1957/10/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 129] James Joyce Letters of James Joyce "Ten years of my life have been consumed in correspondence and litigation about my book Dubliners. It was reje.. 1957/10/30 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 131] Arthur Koestler Thieves in the Night "The ‘People' are regarded through the Socialist Bureaucracy's eyes as a target for propaganda, not as a liv.. 1957/10/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 131] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "The man who does not in his heart protest against obvious baseness and does not passionately try to suppress .. 1957/10/5 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 128-29] Arthur Koestler Thieves in the Night The ending of Thieves in the Night is something of an anticlimax. A very useful book for monks who can read su.. 1957/11/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 133] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism Very satisfied with Karl Adam's Scotist solution of the problem raised by Christ's statement that not even the.. 1957/11/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 134] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "The history of philosophy is the history of human inquiry and human error, not the history of Truth. Truth ha.. 1957/11/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 135] James Joyce Letters of James Joyce Joyce's Letters (sent them back to Louisville today)-a very fine book. Especially enjoyed his letters to his f.. 1957/11/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 135] Jacques Guillet Thèmes bibliques. Etudes sur l'expression et le developement de la revelation Necessity of the Bible. More and more of it. A book like Gillet's Thèmes bibliques fantastically rich and usef.. 1957/11/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 141] Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon (From Darkness at Noon) "The Party denied the free will of the individual - and at the same time exacted his w.. 1957/11/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 140] Arthur Koestler Invisable Writing "Their mentality (of party intellectuals in 1930s) was a caricature of the revolutionary spirit"¦the seeds of .. 1957/11/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 140] Bertolt Brecht Measures Taken / Translated from German Die Massnahme Quote from Bert Brecht Punitive Measure: "He who fights for communism must be able to fight and to renounce fi.. 1957/12/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 146] Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, .. 1957/12/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 146-47] Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions Here, however, is a paragraph which I can and ought to make my own: "My passionate sense of social justice and.. 1957/12/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 148] Georges Bernanos Dialogue des carmelites Bob also sent Bernanos' Dialogue des carmelites one of the first things I read after coming over to the noviti.. 1958/01/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 155] Miguel Covarrubias Indian Art of Mexico and Central America I have [Miguel] Covarrubias' new book [Indian Art of Mexico and Central America] from the Louisville library. .. 1958/02/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 165] Ciro Alegria Mundo es ancho y ajeno Reading Ciro Alegria's "El mundo es ancho y ajeno," walking up and down the stonepath in the cold. It is a be.. 1958/02/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 167] Adolfo Bioy Casares Plan d'evasión Curious novel of Bioy Casaris, Plan d'evasion, about a governor of Devil's Island experimenting with certain p.. 1958/02/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 169] Adolfo Bioy Casares Plan d'evasión Back to Bioy Casaris' Plan d'evasion-as a symbol and a symptom. It is about French people. The death rattle of.. 1958/03/06 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 132] Adolfo Bioy Casares Plan d'evasión What I have been thinking about first of all is [Adolfo] Bioy [Casares]'s novel - Plan de Evasion. It is a goo.. 1958/03/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 179] Gabriel Marcel Homo viator My day of recollection. Went to confession to Fr. John of the Cross in the vault, as usual. Had to wait a litt.. 1958/03/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 182-83] Edward Steichen family of man : the greatest photographic exhibition of all time : 503 pictures from 68 countries / created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art Marvellous books for a few pennies-including The Family of Man for 50 cents. All those fabulous pictures. And .. 1958/03/27 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 44] Piero Bargellini Unquiet Conscience / Translated from Latin by Thomas Merton I enjoyed the Italian piece [note 34: The Unquiet Conscience by Piero Bargellini, later translated by Thomas M.. 1958/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 188] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Amour des lettres et le desier de Dieu. Initiation aux auteurs monastiques du moyen age I had been reading Dom Leclercq's new book L'Amour des lettres et le Desir de Dieu which is very fine, and I s.. 1958/04/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 192-93] Martin Buber I and Thou Buber's I and Thou, in an execrable translation, very difficult to follow at first. An important book, in whic.. 1958/04/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 193] Martin Buber I and Thou "How foolish and hopeless would be the man who turned aside from the course of his life in order to seek God; .. 1958/04/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 195] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Russian Idea Charmed and fascinated by everything Berdyaev says in "The Russian Idea" until suddenly I am brought up with .. 1958/04/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 197-98] John Collier Indians of the Americas I am deeply moved by John Collier's book on The Indians of the Americas.... Until the beginning of the century.. 1958/04/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 195-96] Martin Buber I and Thou Fine climax to Buber's I and Thou. "Meeting with God does not come to man in order that he may concern himself.. 1958/05/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 200] Pablo Antonio Cuadra Jaguar y la luna : poemas Pablo Antonio Cuadra arrived with his wife last evening and left this afternoon. Read me some very fine poems .. 1958/05/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 203] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe Above all, this year has marked my discovery of Pasternak. First, in the copy of Encounter which came by chanc.. 1958/05/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 204] Boris Pasternak Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings Finished Pasternak's Safe Conduct and felt as if I must at once begin to read it again. A magnificent book, on.. 1958/05/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 204] Hannah Arendt Origins of Totalitarianism The terrible insights of Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. Wrote notes here under the pine trees in .. 1958/05/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 204-05] Nicolas Berdyaev Slavery and Freedom An admirable book from the Louisville library. Berdyaev's Slavery and Freedom. I think it is useful to know wh.. 1958/06/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 205-06] Nicolas Berdyaev Slavery and Freedom "It need to be said that politics are always based on lies"¦(we ought to) demand the reduction of politics and.. 1958/06/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 208] Albert Camus chute, recit Camus' La chute [The Fall]. I admit is too long... 1958/07/04 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 51] John Gunther Inside Russia Today I sent back the big Kulski book yesterday and one other. I will be sending the Current History volume as soon .. 1958/07/18 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 52] Albert Camus chute, recit By now everything of the U of K. Library that I had borrowed is on its way back. Unless the unbound an unmarke.. 1958/08/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 211] Louis Bouyer Newman: His Life and Spirituality [Louis] Bouyer's book on Newman, in the refectory, is very good - especially interested in the parts about Oxf.. 1958/08/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 210] Pie Raymond Regamey O.P. Non-Violence et conscience chretienne Doing violence to myself to read Regamey's book on non-violence because I need it. A lot of it is arid and plo.. 1958/08/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 214] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Possessed / by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; transl. from the Russian by Constance Garnett ; with a foreww by Avrahm Yarmolinsky and a transl. of the hitherto-suppressed chapter "At Tihon's" Yesterday good day of recollection in the woods. Read the part of The Possessed about the mad Saint Symeon and.. 1958/08/22 [Ltrs: CforT p. 87] Boris Pasternak Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings I have not yet had the pleasure of reading your recent autobiography although I am familiar with the earlier o.. 1958/09/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 231] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe Have you heard of the new book of the Russian poet Pasternak? Dr. Zhivago. It is a tremendous thing and a lot .. 1958/09/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 231] Louis Bouyer Newman: His Life and Spirituality In the refectory they are reading Newman's life by Louis Bouyer, a splendid book "¦ I think it is the wisest a.. 1958/09/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 216] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe For the last 5 days or so-reading Dr. Zhivago which finally came. Deeply moved by it. Not being in the habit o.. 1958/09/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 218] Charles Freer Andrews Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Works Yesterday in Louisville... After that, had a good day in the library. Some C. F. Andrews on Gandhi (the concep.. 1958/09/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 218] Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or Yesterday in Louisville... After that, had a good day in the library. Some C. F. Andrews on Gandhi (the concep.. 1958/10/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 221] Origenes Opera Omnia The charm of Origen-entranced by his commentary on Numbers with its inexhaustible fertility of ideas (which on.. 1958/10/05 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 221-22] Thomas Verner Moore Life of Man with God Read a little of Dom T. Verner Moore's The Life of Man with God. It has some good things in it but the whole a.. 1958/10/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 223] Cesar Vallejo Poesías completas (1918-1938) / Cesar Vallejo ; recop. y pról. de Cesar Miro Reading Vallejo. Oye a tu masa a terrific poem which I will translate... 1958/10/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 223] Mark Van Doren Autobiography of Mark Van Doren Then on Friday Mark Van Doren's autobiography came and I have begun it, getting with him as far now as the arm.. 1958/10/13 [Ltrs: CforT p. 180] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Fr. Lawrence [Ernesto Cardenal] has already told me a little about the history (behind the poem). It is a magn.. 1958/10/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 224] Louis Bouyer Trône de la sagesse Finishing up a very good two day retreat. Spent it all under the five or six pine trees near St. Teresa's fiel.. 1958/10/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 134-35] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Wrigings which came in today. I was not trying to rush .. 1958/10/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 134] Boris Pasternak Selected Writings Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Wrigings which came in today. I was not trying to rush .. 1958/10/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 135] Mark Van Doren Autobiography of Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren sent his autobiography and I have been enjoying it: it is full of good things and all about eve.. 1958/10/23 [Ltrs: CforT p. 89] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Since my first letter to you I have obtained and read the book [Dr. Zhivago] published by Pantheon, and it has.. 1958/10/23 [Ltrs: CforT p. 90] Vladimir Sergeyewich Solovyov Meaning of Love Am I right in surmising that the ideas in this book run closely parallel to those in [Vladimir] Soloviev's Mea.. 1958/10/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 226] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Wisdom of God: a Brief Summery of Sophiology From the Library of Congress I got Bulgakov's Wisdom of God which is tremendous, particularly his last chapter.. 1958/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 230] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind Reading Czeslaw Milosz The Captive Mind-a really interesting book. When you read something worthwhile in these.. 1958/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 229] Jean Mabillon o.s.b. Traite des etudes monastiques Reading Mabillon's wise and delightful book on monastic studies. Among other things-this beautiful quotation f.. 1958/11/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 230] Josef Pieper Happiness and Contemplation "The whole of political life seems to be ordered with a view of attaining the happiness of contemplation. For .. 1958/12/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 54] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind Having read your remarkable book The Captive Mind I find it necessary to write to you, as without your help I .. 1958/12/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 235] Hans Urs von Balthasar Dieu et l'homme d'aujourd'hui Hans Urs Von Balthasar. "Dieu et l'homme d'aujourd'hui" [God and Man Today].. 1958/12/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 237] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Wisdom of God: a Brief Summery of Sophiology "Christian humanism, which preserves the development of all the creative capacities of man, may be understood .. 1958/12/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 93] Boris Pasternak I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography Kurt W. [Wolff] has sent me the Essai autobiographique [written as the introduction to A Sketch for an Autobio.. 1958/12/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 240] Paul Brunton Hermit in the Himalayas / pen name of Raphael Hurst Today began reading what seems to be a remarkable though poorly written book-Hermit in the Himalayas by Brinto.. 1958/12/30 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 244] Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Significant that on the 28th. in the morning I read Oedipus at Colonus and was deeply moved by it... 1959/01/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 244-45] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe In the morning chapter Rev. Father, because of certain events and circumstances, came out strongly against the.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Edmund Wilson American Earthquake. A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Richard Bewe Gregg Power of Non-violence I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Romano Guardini Religiöse Gestalten in Dostojewskijs Werk: Studien über den Glauben I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Søren Kierkegaard Works of love / by Søren Kierkegaard ; transl. from the Danish by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson ; with an introd. by Douglas V. Steere I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 248] Romano Guardini Religiöse Gestalten in Dostojewskijs Werk: Studien über den Glauben Moved by Guardini's wonderful book on Dostoevsky... 1959/01/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 253-54] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Solitude and Society From Berdyaev's "Solitude and Society": "Man may feel himself infinitely more alone in the midst of his corel.. 1959/02/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 259] Søren Kierkegaard Works of love / by Søren Kierkegaard ; transl. from the Danish by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson ; with an introd. by Douglas V. Steere Kierkegaard's marvelous book on the Works of Love. With pages of careful and passionate thought he returns aga.. 1959/02/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 263] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Orthodox Church Tradition. "God has given us a thought of our own and our personal work cannot be done in the past. In other w.. 1959/02/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 264] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind Fine letter from Czeslaw Milosz in Paris. I had written about The Captive Mind. He replied at length about Alp.. 1959/02/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 56-57] Paul Claudel Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher There is something much too mental and abstract, something too parochial about a great deal of Catholic though.. 1959/03/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 266]   I ching : or book of changes / the Richard Wilhelm transl. ; rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes ; foreword by C.G. Jung A most significant event. After much thought, prayer, and debate, consulted the I Ching as, I think a valid ex.. 1959/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 271] Carl Gustav Jung Undiscovered Self Read some Origen on Josue, and Soloviev (Lectures on God Manhood)-some material on Mount Athos-Allport on prej.. 1959/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 271] Origenes Opera Omnia Read some Origen on Josue, and Soloviev (Lectures on God Manhood)-some material on Mount Athos-Allport on prej.. 1959/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 271] Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie Read some Origen on Josue, and Soloviev (Lectures on God Manhood)-some material on Mount Athos-Allport on prej.. 1959/04/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 272] Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Paths that Lead to the Same Summit "The time is coming when it will be necessary for the man who is to be called ‘educated' to know either Arab.. 1959/04/14 [Ltrs: CforT p. 96] Boris Pasternak I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography Thank you also for I Remember. You have presented it very attractively, and I am delighted to find in it the n.. 1959/04/15 [Ltrs: SofC p. 119] Cuthbert Butler Western Mysticism: The Teaching of SS Augustine Gregory and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life For the Novice Master"”well, it goes without saying that Bouyer's Meaning of the Monastic Life is fundamental... 1959/04/15 [Ltrs: SofC p. 119] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La theologie mystique de Saint Bernard For the Novice Master"”well, it goes without saying that Bouyer's Meaning of the Monastic Life is fundamental... 1959/04/15 [Ltrs: SofC p. 119] Louis Bouyer Meaning of the Monastic Life For the Novice Master"”well, it goes without saying that Bouyer's Meaning of the Monastic Life is fundamental... 1959/05/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 389]   I ching : or book of changes / the Richard Wilhelm transl. ; rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes ; foreword by C.G. Jung The other thing that has kept me waiting is the need for time to digest the superb letter of Pasternak. Things.. 1959/05/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 390] Conrad Pepler English Religious Heritage But the important thing for you at the moment is not Zen or I Ching, so please do not let me distract you from.. 1959/05/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 390] Louis Bouyer Newman: His Life and Spirituality But the important thing for you at the moment is not Zen or I Ching, so please do not let me distract you from.. 1959/05/08 [Ltrs: CforT p. 97-98] Carl Gustav Jung Undiscovered Self How happy I am that [C. G.] Jung is doing an autobiography, and that Kurt is working with him. I recently read.. 1959/05/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 279] Abraham Joshua Heschel Between God and Man. An Interpretation of Judaism Lax brought down the proofs of [Abraham] Heschel's God and Man - which looks very interesting. A Hasid, from W.. 1959/05/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 279] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas Third day of retreat. Yesterday, quiet-sunny day-spent all possible time in the woods reading and meditating. .. 1959/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 281] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas Yesterday all the red roses in the novitiate garden were blooming. Today the rhododendrons by St. Fiacre's shr.. 1959/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 281] Myrrha Lot-Borodin Nicolas Cabasilas: un maître de la spiritualite byzantine au XIVe siècle Yesterday all the red roses in the novitiate garden were blooming. Today the rhododendrons by St. Fiacre's shr.. 1959/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 281] Sydney Loch Athos, the Holy Mountain Yesterday all the red roses in the novitiate garden were blooming. Today the rhododendrons by St. Fiacre's shr.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 69] Constantine Cavarnos Anchored in God: Life, Art, and Thought on the Holy Mountain of Athos I am really enjoying Peaks and Lamas, and also the Athos book [Note 59: Conastantine Cavarnos, Anchored in God.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 4] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas The first thing to be said, of course, is that Hagia Sophia is God Himself. God is not only a Father but a Mot.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 5] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas I am really enjoying Peaks and Lamas, and also the Athos book has been very fin"”and the Hesiod. When you have.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 69] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas I am really enjoying Peaks and Lamas, and also the Athos book [Note 59: Conastantine Cavarnos, Anchored in God.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 5] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Wisdom of God: a Brief Summery of Sophiology Thank you for the photostats from the [Catholic] Encyclopedia [on Wisdom]. I looked them over, and they just b.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 59] Czeslaw Milosz Seizure of Power Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 59] Czeslaw Milosz Sur les bords de l'Issa Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 58] Lional Mordecai Trilling Broken Mirror: A Collection of Writings from Contemporary Poland / edited by Pawel Mayewski Reading The Broken Mirror, I was moved by the sense of real kinship with most of the writers. Underneath the i.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 61] Nicolai Berdyaev Meaning of Creation Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 61] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Solitude and Society Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su.. 1959/05/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 284] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Destiny of Man A quiet morning reading in the woodshed (for the first time in seventeen years had nothing to do with the deco.. 1959/06/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 286] Julien Hartridge Green Journals Saw Shakertown-the big old dormitories stood among the weeds in desolation. Yet there was still something youn.. 1959/06/20 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 232] Arthur Koestler Sleepwalkers I have not yet thanked you either for the books that J. Laughlin brought down. The Sleepwalkers is a real acqu.. 1959/06/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 298] Eckhart Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney Opened a new translation of Eckhart, and immediately hit upon this: "Obedience has no cares, it lacks no bless.. 1959/06/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 297] Gerard Manley Hopkins note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Gerard Manley Hopkins ; ed. with notes and a pref. by Humphry House Baffled by the intensity of observation in the G. M. Hopkins notebooks (Thought I would talk to the novices ab.. 1959/07/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 304-05] Henri Troyat Case de l'Oncle Sam Borrowed from the Library of Congress Henri Troyat's La case de l'Oncle Sam. Journalism but refreshing-it is F.. 1959/07/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 306] D.H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico Now too is the time to go into a different regime. I don't need all the library books I have been getting (tho.. 1959/08/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 315-16] William Blake Complete writings : with all the variant readings / William Blake ; ed. by Geoffrey Keynes And several books on Blake from U.K. library (I had asked for them). When I was in Louisville I picked up, on .. 1959/08/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 316-17] James Thurber Years with Ross Terrell Dickey lent me Thurber's book The Years with Ross. Interesting, and yet I don't laugh. In a way it is .. 1959/08/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 318] James Thurber Years with Ross The book about the New Yorker-Thurber's-oppresses me. Civilization oppresses me, or rather all that is new in .. 1959/08/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 320] James Thurber Years with Ross I continued to be interested and depressed by The Years with Ross. It is really a very remarkable book in its .. 1959/08/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 321] Herbert Butterfield Christianity and History Having been giving deep attention (as deep as possible when one is half awake before Sext) to Butterfield's bo.. 1959/08/24 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 263] Herbert Butterfield Christianity and History P. Danielou's book on History, which I have been reading, steered me toward an interesting Englishman called [.. 1959/08/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 321] James Thurber Years with Ross Yesterday finished The Years with Ross, and am tempted to write Thurber a note about it. This seems to be a go.. 1959/08/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 321] Paul Tillich Love, Power and Justice Reading Tillich's Love, Power and Justice and am excited by it; it is very dense and strong. The substrate of .. 1959/08/30 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 322] Carl Gustav Jung Undiscovered Self She [Fr. Anselm's sister] had been completely unable to understand Fr. A's vocation and had challenged him on .. 1959/09/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 576] Paul Tillich Love, Power and Justice For some time I have owed you this letter acknowledging your kind gift of Love Power and Justice with your own.. 1959/09/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 577] Paul Tillich Love, Power and Justice Finally I want to tell you how happy I am with the earlier chapters of The Theology of Culture, in which I fin.. 1959/09/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 576] Paul Tillich Theology of Culture For some time I have owed you this letter acknowledging your kind gift of Love Power and Justice with your own.. 1959/09/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 114] Ernesto Cardenal Gethsemani, Ky Your poems about Gethsemani [Gethsemani, Ky.] are very effective and have a special meaning for anyone who kno.. 1959/09/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 330] Paul Evdokimov femme et le salut du monde : etude d'anthropologie chretienne sur les charismes de la femme / Paul Evdokimov Have been reading a marvelous book of theology by the Orthodox Father Paul Evdokimov who teaches at Saint Serg.. 1959/09/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 332]   Philokalia A copy of two volumes of the Philokalia sent by B. Rambusch from Athens, arrived the other day. Magnificent. I.. 1959/10/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 335] Tung-pin Lü Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life The last month has been too wild. Seeing too many people-but they came. God brought them. Distraction. I am ve.. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Abraham Joshua Heschel Man Is Not Alone I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 337] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel Fr. Tresmontant says "C'est au niveau politique que se posent les problèmes moraux les plus graves." ["The gr.. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Dane Chandos Village in the Sun I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Josef Pieper Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Tung-pin Lü Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/11/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 338]   Dhammapada A lovely afternoon full of noise. Reading after dinner-snatches from the Dhammapada-I thought of this clear s.. 1959/11/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 339-40] Denis Rougement Western Quest: the Principles of Civilization Denis de Rougemont: The Western Quest - seeking to resolve the antimony inherent in personal life-an antimony .. 1959/11/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 340] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel "Les camps de concentration, les massacres, les tortures"¦nous rappelent queue est l'essence du paganisme: Le .. 1959/11/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 340] Denis Rougement Western Quest: the Principles of Civilization "Les camps de concentration, les massacres, les tortures"¦nous rappelent queue est l'essence du paganisme: Le .. 1959/11/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel Yet of what Laurens Van der Post says about the Bushmen. Tribal morality degenerated into collective immoralit.. 1959/11/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Laurens Post, Van Der Lost World of the Kalahari Yet of what Laurens Van der Post says about the Bushmen. Tribal morality degenerated into collective immoralit.. 1959/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel Finished De Rougemont and Tresmontant, two fine books, especially the latter... 1959/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Denis Rougement Western Quest: the Principles of Civilization Finished De Rougemont and Tresmontant, two fine books, especially the latter... 1959/11/16 [Ltrs: CforT p. 99] Tung-pin Lü Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life How is the Jung biography coming along? I was in the hospital lately and read there The Secret of the Golden F.. 1959/12/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 350]   Apophthegmata Patrum Solitude - witness to Christ - emptiness. Apophthegmata [Sayings of the Desert Fathers] in P[atrologia] G[raec.. 1959/12/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 350]   Cloud of Unknowing Knowles on the English mystics. How much I love the 14th. century and how truly it is my own century, the one .. 1959/12/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 350] David Knowles o.s.b. Religious Orders in England Knowles on the English mystics. How much I love the 14th. century and how truly it is my own century, the one .. 1959/12/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 353] Niall Brennan Making of a Moron Read a bit of Voillaume on the poverty of the Little Brothers. Finished Neal Breman's excellent book The Makin.. 1959/12/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 353] Rene Voillaume Au coeur des masses. La vie religieuse des Petits Frères du Père de Foucauld Read a bit of Voillaume on the poverty of the Little Brothers. Finished Neal Breman's excellent book The Makin.. 1959/12/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 354] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Meaning of History Berdyaev's Meaning of History made up of lectures given in Russia right after the Revolution, before he was ki.. 1959/12/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 356] Josef Pieper Leisure, The Basis of Culture I have finally gotten around to reading Pieper's fine little book Leisure, The Basis of Culture. It is very so.. 1959/12/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 360-61] Robert Lax Circus of the Sun Lax's Circus book is a tremendous poem, an Isaias-like prophecy which has a quality you just don't find in poe.. 1959/12/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 364] Charles Peguy Mystery of the Holy Innocents Read some of Peguy's "Mystery of the Holy Innocents" to the novices last evening... 1959/12/29 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 237] Robert Lax Circus of the Sun Have you seen Bob Lax's wonderful Circus poem [Circus of the Sun], now in a book of its own?.. 1959/12/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 364] Frances M. Cornford Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought Interesting book by Paul Radin on Philosophy of Primitive Man. Also Merleau-Ponty and Cornford on the early Gr.. 1959/12/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 364] Paul Radin Primitive Man as Philosopher Interesting book by Paul Radin on Philosophy of Primitive Man. Also Merleau-Ponty and Cornford on the early Gr.. 1960/01/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 365] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Sens et non-sens From Merleau-Ponty on Pseudo-scientific Marxism (Sens et non-sens, p. 223). Most intelligent papers I have yet.. 1960/01/13 [Ltrs: SofC p. 129] Cyprian Vagaggini Theological dimensions of the liturgy : a general treatise on the theology of the liturgy Thank you for Dom Cyprian Vagaggini's book which I am slowly reading with very great satisfaction. It is solid.. 1960/01/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 369] Hugh Trevor Roper Men and Events Trevor Roper's book, which solicits my agreement, and makes one wonder if I am being tempted to treachery. Too.. 1960/01/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 369] Nicholas of Narbonne Ignea Sagitta (The Flaming Arrow) Getting back read the Ignea Sagitta [The Fiery Arrow] again-in view of article on Carmelite ideal. It is clear.. 1960/01/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 370] Aeschylus Prometheus Bound After dinner-read the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus. Shattered by it. I do not know when I have read anything .. 1960/01/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 369-70] Justus George Lawler Catholic Dimension in Higher Education Very fine book by J. G. Lawler on The Catholic Dimension in Higher Education with splendid quotations from New.. 1960/01/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 235] Justus George Lawler Catholic Dimension in Higher Education Thank you for the new Qumram book which looks solid and interesting. I hope to enjoy it. At the moment I am pl.. 1960/01/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 372] Søren Kierkegaard Journals of Kierkegaard / translated bij Alexander Dru Read a little of Kierkegaard's Journal but the reading was spoiled by the fact that the more intense passages .. 1960/01/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 28] Jacques Maritain Liturgie et contemplation / par Jacques et Raïssa Maritain ; pref. de Charles Journet Many thanks for your valuable little book on Liturgy and Contemplation [Liturgie et contemplation, coauthored .. 1960/02/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 376] Johan Huizinga Erasmus and the Age of Reformation More snow and now, after so many very gloomy days, brilliant winter weather-all the snow freezing and bright s.. 1960/03/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 377] Bruno Snell Discovery of the mind: in Greek philosophy and literature Walked in the snow after dinner and read a little about St. Bede. There are so many things to read! Snell on t.. 1960/03/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 377] Erich Fromm Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis / Other autors: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Richard De Martino Must write to Fromm about the new book (Zen and Psychoanalysis) which is on the whole excellent, especially Su.. 1960/03/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 379] Giles Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. The life of Manning is a masterpiece. That of Arnold, disappointing. Tha.. 1960/03/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 380] Louis Massignon Akhbar al-Hallaj. Texte ancien relatif à la predication et au supplice du mystique musulman al-Hosayn B. Mansour al-Hallaj Reading [Al] Hallaj in Massignon's translation-about which I wrote him a letter today. Hallaj is right, and ou.. 1960/03/18 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 276] Louis Massignon Akhbar al-Hallaj. Texte ancien relatif à la predication et au supplice du mystique musulman al-Hosayn B. Mansour al-Hallaj How can I begin to write you a letter about the amazing book of the prayers and exhortations of Hallaj [Akhbar.. 1960/03/21 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 380] Nadejda Gorodetzky Humiliated Christ in Russian Thought Very important book-The Humiliated Christ in Russian Thought-from the Library of Congress. More and more impre.. 1960/04/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Gershom Gerhard Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Erich Fromm Art of Loving: an Enquiry into the Nature of Love Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Josef A. Jungmann Sacrifice of the Church: the Meaning of the Mass Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Thomas Trahern Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 385] Jacques Barzun House of Intellect Reading Barzun's House of Intellect. Good criticism of the so-called educational "system" which is no system... 1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 66] Albert Camus chute, recit At the same time I enjoy and respect Camus, and think I understand him. What you said about La Chute struck me.. 1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 67] Jean Paul Sartre Huis Clos I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a mu.. 1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 67] Jean Paul Sartre nausee : roman I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a mu.. 1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 68] Robert Lax Circus of the Sun I wish you could see one good book, though, that is unknown, by my friend Robert Lax"”The Circus of the Sun. I.. 1960/05/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 388] Anscar Vonier People of God Still reading Barzun. Finished Neumann on Amor and Psyche and returned it to the library. In the cell, here, V.. 1960/05/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 388] Erich Neumann Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius. Still reading Barzun. Finished Neumann on Amor and Psyche and returned it to the library. In the cell, here, V.. 1960/05/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 388] Jacques Barzun House of Intellect Still reading Barzun. Finished Neumann on Amor and Psyche and returned it to the library. In the cell, here, V.. 1960/05/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 395] Hannah Arendt Human Condition I have been reading a fabulous book, The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, the one who wrote such a good one o.. 1960/05/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 395] Hannah Arendt Origins of Totalitarianism I have been reading a fabulous book, The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, the one who wrote such a good one o.. 1960/05/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 389] Hannah Arendt Human Condition Hannah Arendt's Human Condition is another cardinal book, a hinge on which one's whole thought can turn. Whole.. 1960/05/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 391] Robert Penn Warren Segregation: the Inner Conflict in the South What had most impressed me was the little book-a pamphlet really-of Robert Penn Warren on Segregation. Powerfu.. 1960/05/25 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 3-4] Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto Pelerinage aux Sources Reading [Joseph Jean] Lanza del Vasto, Le Pèlerinage aux Sources [Paris, 1945]. His account of Gandhi and Ward.. 1960/05/30 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 236] Richard Hughes High Wind in Jamaica I have lately read some Joseph Conrad and he is always a Master. Did you ever read anything of Richard Hughes,.. 1960/05/31 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 155] Boris Pasternak Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings I just learned of the death of poor old Pasternak... I cannot help thinking that within a few years Russia is .. 1960/05/31 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 156] John Willett Theater of Bertold Brecht I have been reading the ND book on Brecht's theater. It is very interesting. Have you printed any of Brecht's .. 1960/06/01 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 268] Georges Bernanos Dialogue des carmelites Did I thank you yet for Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmelites? It is a splendid thing, and it is good to have it .. 1960/06/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 5] Hannah Arendt Human Condition Hannah Arendt writes of the Greek πόλις‚ [polis] - "Before men began to act, a definite space had to be secure.. 1960/06/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 6-7] Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto Peleinage aux Sources Yesterday, under pressure, finished the galleys of Disputed Questions with my eyes stinging. Hot, I took a col.. 1960/06/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 6-7] Paul Louis Landsberg Problèmes du personalisme Yesterday, under pressure, finished the galleys of Disputed Questions with my eyes stinging. Hot, I took a col.. 1960/06/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 8] Paul Louis Landsberg Problèmes du personalisme I have a natural tendency to become an escapist, a snob, a narcissist. (And my problems arise largely from gui.. 1960/06/06 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 9] Maurice Villain Abbe Paul Couturier "Des hommes comme Saint Seraphim, Saint François d'Assise et bien d'autres ont accompli dans leur vie l'union .. 1960/06/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 10] Hannah Arendt Human Condition Finished Lanza del Vasto two evenings ago and am getting to the end of H. Arendt-The Human Condition... 1960/06/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 10] Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto Pelerinage aux Sources Finished Lanza del Vasto two evenings ago and am getting to the end of H. Arendt-The Human Condition... 1960/06/12 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 10] Ernesto Cardenal Gethsemani, Ky Ernesto Cardenal's book of poems about Gethsemani arrived. Small, bare, but warm poems, austere annotations, l.. 1960/06/12 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 11] Hannah Arendt Human Condition Finished the Human Condition today. It is the deepest and most important defense of the contemplative life tha.. 1960/06/30 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 17] Bertolt Brecht Trial of Heron Lucullus I am in St. Anthony's Hospital for X-rays. A quiet hot day, reading Chinese philosophy and a little book on th.. 1960/07/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 19] Bertolt Brecht Private Life of the Master Race Read Brecht "Private Life of the Master Rac" under the pine trees the other day. Because it is good, one can .. 1960/07/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 19] D.H. Lawrence Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays I have been able to take a little time for reading in the woods, but have been trying to do too much especiall.. 1960/07/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 19] Ivor Armstrong Richards Mencius on the Mind: Experiments in Multiple Definition I have been able to take a little time for reading in the woods, but have been trying to do too much especiall.. 1960/07/30 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 24] Giuseppe Lampedusa The Leopard Finished [Giuseppe di Lampedusa's] The Leopard yesterday. A finely constructed novel which suddenly disintegra.. 1960/08/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 26] Giulio Basetti-Sani Mohammed et Saint-Francois A passionate and convinced book by a Franciscan [Giulio Basetti-Sani, Mohammed et Saint François, Ottawa, 1959.. 1960/08/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 29]   Koran "Parmi les lignes il y a les vaisseaux qui, sur la mer, sont comme dans le desert." ["Among the many vessels .. 1960/08/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 30] Giulio Basetti-Sani Mohammed et Saint-Francois L. Massignon believes that the "nocturnal ascension" of Mohammed brought him to the threshold of mysticism bu.. 1960/08/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 30] Jean Steinmann Saint Jerome and His Times [Jean] Steinmann's book on St. Jerome [St. Jerome and His Times, New York, 1959] in the refectory is interesti.. 1960/08/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 138] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov Yes, I too love Dostoevsky, very much. Staretz Zosima can always make me weep and a lot of the beat people in .. 1960/08/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 138] Fyodor Dostoyevsky House of the Dead Yes, I too love Dostoevsky, very much. Staretz Zosima can always make me weep and a lot of the beat people in .. 1960/08/20 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 33-34] Vinoba Talks on the Gita (Translators have retained some essential Sanskrit words) / Vinoba ; introd. by Jayaprakash Narayan Wonderful book by [Acharya] Vinoba [Bhave], Talks on the Gita [New York, 1960]-sent by Lax. Began it yesterday.. 1960/08/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 36-37] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu I have finished reading the proofs of the Divine Milieu of P[ère] Teilhard de Chardin which were sent to me by.. 1960/09/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 39] Olivier Clement Transfigurer le temps: notes sur le temps à la lumière de la tradition orthodoxe "Le Temps de l'Eglise culmine donc à la prise de conscience par chaque personne humaine que la Fin est dejà pr.. 1960/09/04 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 279] Giulio Basetti-Sani Mohammed et Saint-Francois As you know, Herbert has been here. He was telling me that you were going to Moscow, etc., and I did not write.. 1960/09/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 42] Max Picard Flight from God The heart of Clement's book-that "fallen Tim" (le temps dechu) has no present. It is only the expression of a.. 1960/09/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 42] Olivier Clement Transfigurer le temps: notes sur le temps à la lumière de la tradition orthodoxe The heart of Clement's book-that "fallen Tim" (le temps dechu) has no present. It is only the expression of a.. 1960/09/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 397] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu They (well, a publisher) sent me a book by Teilhard de Chardin to review: The Divine Milieu. It is fairly good.. 1960/09/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 44] E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest Brought back from the library, for light reading, O[liver] St. John Gogarty's Week End in the Middle of the We.. 1960/09/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 44] Oliver St. John Gogarty Week End in the Middle of the Week: and other Essays on the Bias Brought back from the library, for light reading, O[liver] St. John Gogarty's Week End in the Middle of the We.. 1960/09/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 44] E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest "For what, in that world of gigantic horror, was tolerable except the slighter gestures of dissent?" So says .. 1960/09/11 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 45] Sophrony Undistorted Image: Startz Silouan 1866-1938 The book on Staretz Sylvan by Archimandrite Sophrony [The Undistorted Image, London, 1958]-monk of Athos now i.. 1960/09/15 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 115] Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence in Peace and War To Carolyn: many thanks for the Gandhi [Note 96: Mahatma Gandhi, Non-Violence in Peace and War, from which mrt.. 1960/09/16 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 48] Karl Barth Christmas / translated by Berhard Citron From Karl Barth-Christmas 1931 [translated by Berhard Citron, London, 1959]. (That Christmas I was in Strasbou.. 1960/09/16 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 49] Karl Barth Christmas / translated by Berhard Citron Opposites: Karl Barth and Gemistus Pletho.15 I do not mean to be facetious. Gemistus (who attended the Council.. 1960/09/19 [Ltrs: SofC p. 135] Sophrony Undistorted Image: Startz Silouan 1866-1938 About being a monk: have you run across the splendid biography of Staretz Silouan who died on Mt. Athos in 193.. 1960/09/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 51] Karl Barth Against the Stream Moving words of K. Barth preached on Good Friday 1948 in Hungary at Debrecen, the great Calvinist center. "For.. 1960/09/25 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 52] E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest Reading Lorca again-what a marvelous poet, so alive, so much strength and vividness and sound. I can think of .. 1960/09/25 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 52] E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest Finished Abinger Harvest, embarrassed a little by the pageant but loved all the rest of it. Finished Isaias.N.. 1960/09/25 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 52] Joseph Daoust Dom Martène, un Geant de l'Erudtition benedictine Finished Abinger Harvest, embarrassed a little by the pageant but loved all the rest of it. Finished Isaias.N.. 1960/09/29 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 53] Gordon Harland Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr Politics-at last I think I am beginning to come out of my stupor. Excellent book on [Reinhold] Niebuhr (by G. .. 1960/10/03 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 55] Andre Marie Jean Festugière Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon After night office, long quiet interval, reading [Andre Marie Jean] Festugière on Plato. And that life of Dom .. 1960/10/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 57] Plato Phaedo After the Night Office. The superb moral and positive beauty of the Phaedo. One does not have to agree with Pl.. 1960/10/12 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 57] Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence in Peace and War "A person who realizes a particular evil of his time and finds that it overwhelms him dives deep in his own br.. 1960/10/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 59] Andre Marie Jean Festugière Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon Coffee after night office and the good long silence until Prime. Deliciae meae. [My delights.] This is somethi.. 1960/10/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 59] Joseph Daoust Dom Martène, un Geant de l'Erudtition benedictine Finishing life of Dom Martène-the curious condition at Saint-Germain-des-Pres at beginning of 18th cent.-somet.. 1960/11/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 63] Abraham Joshua Heschel God in Search of Man Read sermons of St. Faustus of Rieg the other day, and liked them. Curious about the monks of Lerins. Reading .. 1960/11/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 63] Charles Harold Dodd The Bible Today Read sermons of St. Faustus of Rieg the other day, and liked them. Curious about the monks of Lerins. Reading .. 1960/11/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 65] Charles Harold Dodd The Bible Today C. H. Dodd - in a remarkable book (The Bible Today): "We shall get at the truth of our present situation only .. 1960/11/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 65] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu I have nothing but sympathy for his attempt to take a new view of things. I have not read anything but the Div.. 1960/11/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 64] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu Dom Gabriel [Sortais, the Abbot General], after consulting a professor in Rome, has refused permission to prin.. 1960/11/15 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 66] Abraham Joshua Heschel God in Search of Man At the heart of Heschel's splendid book-God in Search of Man-the consistent emphasis on the importance of time.. 1960/11/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 45]   Cloud of Unknowing Some important books which I recommend to you can be obtained from Harper Brothers "¦ They are publishing an i.. 1960/11/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 44] Bruno de Jesus-Marie o.c.d. Saint Jean de la Croix In regard to St. John of the Cross, I think we have here some paperback editions of his main works and I have .. 1960/11/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 45] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La theologie mystique de Saint Bernard Some important books which I recommend to you can be obtained from Harper Brothers "¦ They are publishing an i.. 1960/11/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 45] Jan Ruysbroeck Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage Some important books which I recommend to you can be obtained from Harper Brothers "¦ They are publishing an i.. 1960/11/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 45] Thomas Trahern Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings Some important books which I recommend to you can be obtained from Harper Brothers "¦ They are publishing an i.. 1960/12/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 71] M.E. Boismard Du Baptême à Cana Came to St. Mary of Carmel and built a pretty fire in the fireplace and got settled down to read: and opening .. 1960/12/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 72] Isaac of Stella Sermones Magnificent light in the lapidary sentences of Isaac of Stella. Fire struck from stone: but how marvelous! His.. 1960/12/05 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 237] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu Did you mention something about Teilhard de Chardin? I have had some trouble there too. Ed [Rice] sent me a re.. 1960/12/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 31-32] Edward Deming Andrews people called Shakers : a search for the perfect society It was indeed a pleasure to get your kind letter. I had been thinking of writing to you myself for some time, .. 1960/12/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 31-32] Edward Deming Andrews Shaker furniture : the craftsmanship of an American communal sect / by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews ; photos by William F. Winter It was indeed a pleasure to get your kind letter. I had been thinking of writing to you myself for some time, .. 1960/12/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 430] Abraham Joshua Heschel God in Search of Man I think the one that really appeals to me the most of all is God in Search of Man. I do not mean that I think .. 1960/12/17 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 160] James Laughlin wild anemone & other poems Bob [MacGregor] sent me your Wild Anemone [& Other Poems], which I reproach you for never having told me about.. 1960/12/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 78] Werner Wilhelm Jaeger Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture / Gilbert Highet (translator) Snow is melting a little. Quiet afternoon of Christmas Eve. Read a book of Newman's romantic but fundamentally.. 1960/12/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 79]   I ching : or book of changes / the Richard Wilhelm transl. ; rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes ; foreword by C.G. Jung I read a thing of Kierkegaard with a lovely paragraph on solitude-a bit of Henry Miller on Big Sur (in another.. 1960/12/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 79] Giuseppe Lampedusa The Leopard I read a thing of Kierkegaard with a lovely paragraph on solitude - a bit of Henry Miller on Big Sur (in anoth.. 1960/12/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 79] Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch I read a thing of Kierkegaard with a lovely paragraph on solitude-a bit of Henry Miller on Big Sur (in another.. 1960/12/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 80] Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Hinduism and Buddhism Incomparable richness of Coomaraswamy! His book on Hinduism and Buddhism. I am giving it a first reading in wh.. 1961/01/18 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 86] Samuel Nathaniel Behrman Portrait of Max: an Intimat Memoire of Sir Max Beerbohm Moved by S. N. Behrman's beautiful book on Max Beerbohm [Portrait of Max, New York, 1960]. That is important f.. 1961/01/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 89] Samuel Nathaniel Behrman Portrait of Max: an Intimat Memoire of Sir Max Beerbohm That Behrman book on Beerbohm is not always admirable. Sometimes his admiration makes him sound like something.. 1961/01/22 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 90] Paul Evdokimov Orthodoxie An overwhelming statement of P[aul] Evdokimov. "Pour l'orthodoxie il ne s'agit jamais d'une soumission à une i.. 1961/01/22 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 90] Samuel Nathaniel Behrman Portrait of Max: an Intimat Memoire of Sir Max Beerbohm I know what really annoys me about the Behrman book-he is finally, completely, dedicated to the illusion that .. 1961/01/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 91] Paul Evdokimov Orthodoxie Evdokimov on orthodoxy - once again, as I have so many times recently, I meet the concept of natura naturans [.. 1961/01/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 91] Salvatore Quasimodo False and True Green / translation from the Italian: Il falso e vero verde [Salvatore] Quasimodo's wonderful poem on Auschwitz [Complete Poems, New York, 1984] sees this. I am deeply in.. 1961/01/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 559-60] Sophrony Undistorted Image: Startz Silouan 1866-1938 First of all, your book about the Staretz Silouane offers a striking example of a sanctity that is monastic, a.. 1961/01/28 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 91] Reinhold Niebuhr Christian Realism and Political Problems I respect more and more the intelligence and integrity of Reinhold Niebuhr. His is one of the few authenticall.. 1961/02/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 92-93]   ten principal Upanishads / put into English by Shree Purohit, swami, and W.B. Yeats Tremendous discovery. The Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad! Kairos! Everything for a long time has been slowly leadin.. 1961/02/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 129] Laurens Post, van der Dark Eye in Africa: Politics, Psychology Have you read a wonderful book called the Dark Eye in Africa by Laurens Van der Post? He is another remarkable.. 1961/02/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 129] Laurens Post, van der Lost World of the Kalahary Have you read a wonderful book called the Dark Eye in Africa by Laurens Van der Post? He is another remarkable.. 1961/02/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 128] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas Yes, I have read Marco Pallis [i.e., Peaks and Lamas]. We do not have it here, I borrowed it from Victor Hamme.. 1961/02/13 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 262] Jean Leclercq Alone with God Happy to hear you are bringing out Leclercq's Alone with God. It will be worthwhile I believe, though I don't .. 1961/03/03 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 97] Benet of Canfield Rule of Perfection I started the mystical theology class Wednesday (Mar. 1). [Note 5: Merton's lecture notes for this series of c.. 1961/03/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 340] Benet of Canfield Rule of Perfection I am reading Part III of Benet with the very greatest interest. It is true that he has a welter of divisions a.. 1961/03/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 98] Benet of Canfield Rule of Perfection Finished reading the MS of Pt. III of Canfield's Rule of Perfection. It is really very fine... 1961/03/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 101] Arthur Koestler Lotus and the Robot Finishing [Arthur] Koestler's book on Asia, The Lotus and the Robot [London, 1960]. Though there are plenty of.. 1961/03/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 74] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind This is just an added note to the longer letter I mailed this morning. Don't be perturbed about The Captive Mi.. 1961/03/28 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 103] Robert McAfee Brown American Dialogue: A Protestant Looks at Catholicism Deeply impressed by this statement of Robert McAfee Brown: "All of the great movements of reform and renewal i.. 1961/04/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 614] James Legge Texts of Taoism Now as to the practical details. I have not seen the Giles translation and would be very glad to have it at ha.. 1961/04/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 105] Gregory of Nyssa In canticum canticorum Yesterday-reading bits of Dame Julian of Norwich and today I began Gregory of Nyssa's homilies on the Canticle.. 1961/04/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 105] Johan Huizinga Waning of the Middle Ages "There is not a more dangerous tendency in history than that of representing the past as if it were a rational.. 1961/04/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 105] Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love Yesterday-reading bits of Dame Julian of Norwich and today I began Gregory of Nyssa's homilies on the Canticle.. 1961/04/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 289] William Carlos Williams In the American grain J. Laughlin"”your publisher and min"”tells me you have been quite sick, a fact which I am sorry to hear. I hop.. 1961/04/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 106] Nicolas of Cusa Vision of God Trying to finish Nicholas of Cusa's Vision of God, but he verbalizes too much. Influence of Augustine... 1961/04/16 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 108] F.X. Durrwell Resurrection: a Biblical Study / translated by Rosemary Sheed [F. X.] Durrwell's book on the Resurrection, sent by Frank Sheed, is excellent when you get into it. A remarka.. 1961/04/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 615-16] John C.H. Wu Beyond East and West I am very glad the Mencius finally arrived and I knew you would like it. I am glad you approved of the "night .. 1961/04/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 341] Benet of Canfield Rule of Perfection I now have the first two parts of Canfield's Rule, though I have not had a chance to read them. The notes arri.. 1961/05/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 115] Titus Burckhardt An introduction to Sufi doctrine Abdul Aziz has sent some books on Islam, including first of all a powerful and concise little volume on Sufism.. 1961/05/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 117] Jean Baptiste Porion Hadewijch d'Anvers. Ecrits mystiques des Beguines Have finally after five - no, seven, years got down to work on the remarkable little book of Dom [Jean-Baptist.. 1961/05/13 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 269] Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the fool The Singer books have come and I am in the midst of one of them, Gimpel, which is fabulous, literally. I think.. 1961/05/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 48] Titus Burckhardt An introduction to Sufi doctrine But now first of all and before everything else I want to thank you for the remarkable books you sent me. I ha.. 1961/05/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 49] Titus Burckhardt An introduction to Sufi doctrine After reading Burckhardt, I have glimpsed many interesting relationships and problems. The question of Tawhid .. 1961/05/15 [Ltrs: HGL p. 341-42]   Cloud of Unknowing I have heard of The Mirror of Simple Souls. It is attributed to Marguerite Porete, an unfortunate Beguine who .. 1961/05/19 [Ltrs: HGL p. 617] Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching / Translated by John C.H. Wu Paul Sih sent me your translation of Lao Tzu, and this I like very much. I am hoping to write an article on th.. 1961/05/23 [Ltrs: HGL p. 549] Mary Lelia Makra Hsiao Ching / transl. (from the Chinese) by Mary Lelia Makra ed. by Paul K. T. Sih It has been a little while since I received your kind letter and later on the copy of the Hsiao Ching, for whi.. 1961/05/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 618] Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching / Translated by John C.H. Wu I have carefully gone through your fine translation of the Tao Te Ching, and it is all superb. I really mean t.. 1961/05/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 618] Mary Lelia Makra Hsiao Ching / transl. (from the Chinese) by Mary Lelia Makra ed. by Paul K. T. Sih I have carefully gone through your fine translation of the Tao Te Ching, and it is all superb. I really mean t.. 1961/06/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 125-26] J. B. Mahn Pape Benoit XII et les cisterciens Interesting book of J. B. Mahn on Benedict XII and the Cistercians. And the question of studies (The College o.. 1961/06/10 [Ltrs: HGL p. 342] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls The Mirror of Simple Souls still interests me and I want to look into it more. I forget where I ran across the.. 1961/06/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 125] William G. Congdon In My Disk of Gold: Itinary to Christ by William Congdon Wrote a couple of pages for Bill Congdon's book the other day. He deserves a statement. He needed the transpar.. 1961/06/15 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 127] Romain Rolland Inde: journal 1915-1943 Began the other day reading Romain Rolland's Inde. Wide awake and all there when I read this (I cannot say as .. 1961/06/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 130] Romain Rolland Inde: journal 1915-1943 Romain Rolland's Inde is detailed and interesting - besides being very important - in the objectivity with whi.. 1961/06/21 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 140] William L. Shirer Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany I do not have any book on Nicholas of Cusa or about his work. Carolyn never brought or sent any. Perhaps thoug.. 1961/07/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 343]   Cloud of Unknowing I like the Penguin edition of the Cloud. It is clear and easy for the contemporary reader. Yet it does lose so.. 1961/07/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 343] Walter Hilton Scale of Perfection I like the Penguin edition of the Cloud. It is clear and easy for the contemporary reader. Yet it does lose so.. 1961/07/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 137] Eckhart Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney I am becoming entranced with Eckhart: I have been won by the brevity, the incisiveness of his sermons, his way.. 1961/07/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 138] Karl Rahner Free Speech in the Church What I wrote above, though not quite what I wanted, I still stick to in principle in spite of what K[arl] Rahn.. 1961/07/08 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 140] Romain Rolland Inde: journal 1915-1943 An understanding of why I am so taken with Romain Rolland, why he speaks to me with such warmth of conviction:.. 1961/07/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 141] Romain Rolland Inde: journal 1915-1943 Points from Gandhi on non-cooperation (R. Rolland, Inde, p. 327)1. To refuse military service when the time h.. 1961/07/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 289-90] Allen Ginsberg Kaddish and other poems 1958-1960 It has taken me a long time to get to be able to follow your advice and read Kaddish [and Other Poems], becaus.. 1961/07/11 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 141] Pius XI Divini Redemptoris Essential soundness of the principles in Divini Redemptoris - Pius XI's Encyclical against atheistic communism.. 1961/07/18 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 142-43] Placide Tempels philosophie bantou I have thought and spoken... with Père Danielou whom, as theologian, I consider my director and who was here o.. 1961/07/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 143] Christopher Dawson Historic Reality of Christian Culture: A Way to the Renewal of Human Life I agree with these propositions in C[hristopher] Dawson's excellent book, The Historic Reality of Christian Cu.. 1961/07/25 [Ltrs: HGL p. 344] Vladimir Lossky Theologie negative et connaissance de Dieu chez Maître Eckhart Now, above all. Today came the Lossky book on Eckhart. It is fabulously good, and not only that but it is for .. 1961/07/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 145] Pieter Meer de Walcheren, van der Rencontres: Leon Bloy, Raïssa Maritain, Christine et Pieterke Moved deeply and to tears by Pierre van der Meer de Walcheren's book Rencontres, which he kindly sent, saying .. 1961/07/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 145] Pieter Meer de Walcheren, van der Rencontres: Leon Bloy, Raïssa Maritain, Christine et Pieterke Lovely poem on Chagall by Raissa Maritain in P. Van der Meer's Rencontres. Like to translate it in Jubilee wit.. 1961/07/28 [Ltrs: SofC p. 139] Pieter Meer de Walcheren, van der Paradis Blanc It was a joy to receive your book with the very cordial dedication which you inscribed there. I am convinced t.. 1961/07/28 [Ltrs: SofC p. 139] Pieter Meer de Walcheren, van der Rencontres: Leon Bloy, Raïssa Maritain, Christine et Pieterke It was a joy to receive your book with the very cordial dedication which you inscribed there. I am convinced t.. 1961/07/28 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 146] Sophocles Antigone Looked over notes on Sophocles' Antigone. Must read it again and again. How great are the Greeks, how much we .. 1961/08/06 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 148] Eckhart Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney Today I read the wonderful sermon on the divine truth in which Eckhart says that as a person about to be struc.. 1961/08/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 149] Clement of Alexandria Protreptikos Both Newman and Fenelon loved Clement of Alexandria, which is not at all surprising. To Newman he was "like mu.. 1961/08/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 619] Chuang-tzu Dschuang Dsi : das wahre buch vom südlichen Blütenland : Nan hua dschen ging / Chuang-tzu ; aus dem chinesischen verdeutscht und erläutert von Richard Wilhelm The [Leon] Wieger [French translation of Chuang Tzu] is good to have. He is breezy and to some extent helpful,.. 1961/08/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 619] Paul K.T. Sih Decision for China I am reading Paul Sih's book about China at the moment. It is very clear and informative, and tells me a lot o.. 1961/08/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 619] Zhuang Ze Oeuvre de Tchoang-tzeu / translated into French by Leon Wieger The [Leon] Wieger [French translation of Chuang Tzu] is good to have. He is breezy and to some extent helpful,.. 1961/08/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 549] Paul K.T. Sih Decision for China It is already a long time since your letter of July 26th and the arrival of the two books, which I was so happ.. 1961/08/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 549] Paul K.T. Sih From Confusius to Christ It is already a long time since your letter of July 26th and the arrival of the two books, which I was so happ.. 1961/08/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 153]   Theologica Germanica The library has bought a copy of the Theologia Germanica, which I began today... 1961/08/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 154] Clement of Alexandria Paedagogue Having finished the Protreptikos of Clement, began the Pedagogue. He is certainly one of the Fathers I like be.. 1961/08/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 154] Clement of Alexandria Protreptikos Having finished the Protreptikos of Clement, began the Pedagogue. He is certainly one of the Fathers I like be.. 1961/08/22 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 155] Chrisopher Dawson Understanding Europe I finished [Christopher] Dawson's Understanding Europe [New York, 1952]. It is a fine book. He is completely r.. 1961/08/22 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 154] Henry Miller Colossus of Maroussi In the Nation-a good article on Nicaragua: a poisonous critique of Miller's Tropic of Cancer by [Kenneth] Rexr.. 1961/08/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 156]   Cloud of Unknowing Finally, three wonderful chapters in the Cloud of Unknowing on Martha and Mary, ending with this, which is eve.. 1961/08/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 157]   Theologica Germanica Theologia Germanica on the heaven and hell we carry about within us, and how it is good to experience within o.. 1961/08/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 131] Mircea Eliade Mythes, rêves et mystères. English. Myths, dreams, and mysteries : the encounter between contemporary faiths and archaic realities / Mircea Eliade ; transl. by Philip Mairet I have been reading a really remarkable book on Eckhart, by Vladimir Lossky, in French. It is very difficult i.. 1961/08/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 131] Vladimir Lossky Theologie negative et connaissance de Dieu chez Maître Eckhart I have been reading a really remarkable book on Eckhart, by Vladimir Lossky, in French. It is very difficult i.. 1961/09/09 [Ltrs: HGL p. 345]   Apophthegmata Patrum For my own part (witness The Wisdom of the Desert) I purposely edit the material in a way that seems to me to .. 1961/09/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 239] Denise Levertov With Eyes in the Backs of Their Heads One new poet I am very happy about is Denise Levertov. New Directions has done a book of hers, With Eyes in th.. 1961/09/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 163] Lewis Mumford Art and Technics Bright hot weather. A Coast Guard jet plane flew low over the hermitage and monastery after dinner and circled.. 1961/09/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 50] Henry Corbin Imagination creatrice dans le soufisme d'Ibn 'Arabi Henry Corbin is an author in whom I am greatly interested and think that his book on Ibn Arabi is going to be .. 1961/09/25 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 165] Lewis Mumford Art and Technics Finished Mumford's Art and Technics yesterday. His last pages on the interior life are very good. He is anothe.. 1961/09/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 315] Erich Fromm Sigmund Freud's Mission Your latest book [Sigmund Freud's Mission] has reached me and the material is very interesting. The texts you .. 1961/10/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 167] Henry Corbin Imagination creatrice dans le soufisme d'Ibn 'Arabi The first book of Buber that has really gripped me is the one on the Origins and Meaning of Hasidism [New York.. 1961/10/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 167] Martin Buber Origin and Meaning of Hasidism The first book of Buber that has really gripped me is the one on the Origins and Meaning of Hasidism [New York.. 1961/10/03 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 167] Henry Corbin Imagination creatrice dans le soufisme d'Ibn 'Arabi The Corbin book on Ibn al' Arabi is in ways tremendous. The plays and changes on the theme of the divine compa.. 1961/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 140] Gaston Brillet Meditations on the Old Testament There is a rather good book by Brillet, Meditations on the Old Testament . In fact it is in four volumes. As a.. 1961/10/15 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 170] Henry Miller Remember to remember I have been reading Henry Miller's Remember to Remember [Norfolk, 1947] especially for the part about war, wri.. 1961/10/16 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 145] Denise Levertov Overland to the Islands Did I send to your library a book of poetry called Overland to the Islands by Denise Levertov? I think I did. .. 1961/10/17 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 170] Robert Lowell Imitations Lowell's Imitations, a fascinating book. He has developed the vein I liked least in Lord Weary's Castle of tak.. 1961/10/18 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 272] Nikolai Leskov Cathedral Clergy The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to [Nicolas] Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. Ha.. 1961/10/18 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 272] Robert Lowell Imitations The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to [Nicolas] Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. Ha.. 1961/10/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 170-71] George Ernest Wright God Who Acts: Biblical Theology as Recital Also have been reading more Biblical theology-esp. G. E. Wright, God Who Acts [Chicago, 1952], a book given to.. 1961/10/20 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 171] Jean Giono Regain After dinner-in the cold woodshed-have discovered a marvelous book by [Jean] Giono - of ancient vintage: Rega.. 1961/10/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 173] E.I. (Edward Ingram) Watkin Poets and mystics Etta Gullick-along with wonderful letters from the Adriatic, for she was at Istanbul to see the Patriarch and .. 1961/10/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 173] Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love Etta Gullick-along with wonderful letters from the Adriatic, for she was at Istanbul to see the Patriarch and .. 1961/10/24 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 181] Henri Miller Murder the Murderer Also many thanks for the books which have come not only from Ungar but also from Tuttle. All fine. And Henry M.. 1961/10/24 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 181] Henry Miller Remember to remember Also many thanks for the books which have come not only from Ungar but also from Tuttle. All fine. And Henry M.. 1961/10/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 174] E.F. Osborn Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria / and C.H. Dodd Calmed down to some extent this morning in the "sacred silence," reading, at peace. G. Ernest Wright on Bibli.. 1961/10/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 174] George Ernest Wright God Who Acts: Biblical Theology as Recital Calmed down to some extent this morning in the "sacred silence," reading, at peace. G. Ernest Wright on Bibli.. 1961/10/29 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 174] Paul Tillich Protestant Era "The key to the interpretation of history is historical activity," says Tillich. One of the statements that r.. 1961/11/14 [Ltrs: HGL p. 316] Erich Fromm May Man Prevail Your new book May Man Prevail has reached me and I am reading it with the greatest interest. I think it is a r.. 1961/11/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 181] Clement of Alexandria Stromata. French & Greek. Selections. Stromate II / Clement d'Alexandrie ; introd. et notes de Th. Camelot ; texte grec et trad. de Cl. Mondesert Reading Clement, the Stromateis, with comfort and consolation. I see no problem at all in his "esotericism." .. 1961/11/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 347-48] Jean Danielou Platonisme et theologie mystique. Essay sur la doctrine spirituelle de Saint Gregoire de Nysse [I] am trying as best I can to answer your questions about the introductions to Parts I and II of Benet... Now.. 1961/11/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 182] Laurens Post, van der Heart of the Hunter I read Laurens van der Post's Heart of the Hunter [New York, 1961]. Dangerous secrets to reveal. Once again I .. 1961/11/25 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 187] Donald Keys (editor) God and the H Bomb This is certainly enough for a good solid book. Ed Rice sent me one that has been brought out just now, God an.. 1961/11/25 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 187] Walter Stein (ed.) Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience Furthermore I have run across an excellent small book of articles on Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscie.. 1961/12/01 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 188] Walter Stein (ed.) Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience Carey McWilliams [at The Nation] wrote suggesting I do an article for hij. I thought I would try a review arti.. 1961/12/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 405] Walter Stein (ed.) Nuclear Weapons: a Catholic Response The English book on Nuclear Weapons [Walter Stein, ed.] is without any doubt the best thing I have read for a .. 1961/12/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 184] Charles Wright Mills Causes of World War Three Reading Clement still, and the Scala Claustralium (for the novices) and began today The Causes of World War II.. 1961/12/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 184] Guigo II Scala Claustrarum Reading Clement still, and the Scala Claustralium (for the novices) and began today The Causes of World War II.. 1961/12/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 620]   Poems on Solitude / Transl. from the Chinese by Jerome Chen and Mike Bullock "¦ Someone has recently sent me a marvelous book, Poems of Solitude, a collection including Juan Chi, Pao Chao.. 1961/12/12 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 185-86] al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri Ali ibn Usma Kashf al-Mahjúb : the oldest Persian treatise on sufiism / by Alī­ B. Uthmán al-Jullābi al-Hujwīrī : transl. from the text of the Lahore edition, comp. with mss. In the India office and British Museum by Reynold A. Nicholson From Al Hujwīrī [The Kashf Al-Mahjub] "It is glorious for man to bear the burden of trouble laid upon him by h.. 1961/12/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 348] Jean Danielou From Glory to Glory: Texts from Gregory of Nyssa's Mystical Writings / and Herbert Musurillo The new book on Gregory of Nyssa by Danielou and Musurillo has been sent me for review by Scribner's. I wonder.. 1961/12/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 349] Thomas E. Roberts Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience I do think you ought to read something about it. A book put out by the Merlin Press in London, and edited by W.. 1961/12/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 189] Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love This morning I was praying much for a wise heart, and I think the gift of this Christmas has been the real dis.. 1961/12/31 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 192] Charles Wright Mills Causes of World War Three What are we going to do about some of [C.] Wright Mills' Causes of World War III? Are you the one that had Mar.. 1962/01/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 28] Erich Fromm May Man Prevail Erich Fromm is a psychiatrist whom you may or may not know. He is a leftist and is outspoken, appearing in all.. 1962/01/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 27-28] F.H. Drinkwater Morals and Missiles As I said in the letter to the people of the Merlin Press, I found the book edited by you [Nuclear Weapons and.. 1962/01/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 27-28] Walter Stein (ed.) Nuclear Weapons: a Catholic Response As I said in the letter to the people of the Merlin Press, I found the book edited by you [Nuclear Weapons and.. 1962/01/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 204] W.H. [Ping] Ferry Disarm and Parley, a Case for Unilateral Disarmament I had not seen before the thing of yours which we are printing, the one on Disarm and Parley. This is very fin.. 1962/01/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 196] Trevor Leggett first Zen reader Amakuki Sessan in his commentary on Hakuin's "Song of Meditation" (conferences given on the radio in 1934!!) .. 1962/01/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 196] Martin Buber Tales of Rabbi Nahman Reading the Tales of Rabbi Nachman-some are a bit too drawn out, but the one about the Clever Man and the Simp.. 1962/01/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 350] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls Eric Colledge in an introduction to an English translation of some sermons of Tauler says that a Dr. Romana Gu.. 1962/02/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 35] James Roy Newman Rule of Folly By the way, I got two copies of The Rule of Folly. I will pass the extra one along to someone who can profit b.. 1962/02/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 320] Tsangnyön Heruka Life of Milarepa First of all I want to thank you for the wonderful gift of the Life of Mila Repa. This is a splendid volume, a.. 1962/02/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 34] Walter Stein (ed.) Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience I was very happy to hear you had written something about peace. If possible, please send me a copy at once, as.. 1962/02/04 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 32] Erich Widder Glanz des Ewigen: Sakrale Kunst in Österreich I was happy to hear from you again and have very much enjoyed the beautiful book of Austrian churches, Glanz d.. 1962/02/10 [Ltrs: HGL p. 544-45] Erich Fromm Marx's concept of man / Erich Fromm ; with a transl. from Marx's economic and philosophical manuscripts by T.B. Bottomore At one point I would amplify and clarify what Fr. Tavard has said: where he discussed Marx. He does not make c.. 1962/02/13 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 202] Andre Schwartz-Bart Last of the Just Finished the Last of the Just [Andre Schwartz-Bart, New York, 1960], which is a tremendously moving thing, and.. 1962/02/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 203] Nicholas of Narbonne Ignea Sagitta (The Flaming Arrow) Milarepa's prayer in solitude-austere and beautiful. Something to meditate on-like the Fiery Arrow... 1962/02/15 [Ltrs: HGL p. 535] Andre Schwartz-Bart Last of the Just Guess what, I just got through reading The Last of the Just. I think it is a really great book. It has helped .. 1962/03/00 [Ltrs: HGL p. 73] Daniel Berrigan S.J. Encounters I am glad you like New Seeds and will look forward to seeing the review. Your poems [Encounters] arrived. They.. 1962/03/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 45] Gordon C. Zahn German Catholics and Hitler's War: A Study in Social Control I have been reading Gordon Zahn's book [German Catholics and Hitler's War] which you published. It is a most i.. 1962/03/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 45] Hans Küng Council, Reform and Reunion Then the Hans Küng book, The Council, Reform and Reunion. This too is splendid. One's reaction is more hopeful.. 1962/03/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 43] Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love But Julian is without doubt one of the most wonderful of all Christian voices. She gets greater and greater in.. 1962/03/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 47] Karl Rahner On the Theology of Death I am most grateful for the books. Rahner's Theology of Death was the first thing I grabbed, and I finished it .. 1962/03/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 38] Raymond E. F. Larsson Book Like a Bow Curved Forgive me for waiting so long to acknowledge the book. As a matter of fact, I remember having some correspond.. 1962/03/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 206] Charles Wright Mills Power Elite Reading Wright Mills on the Power Elite. How can we avoid war? The Pentagon is moving the country and forming .. 1962/03/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 207] Thomas Aquinas Commentary on Timothy "The secret which is hidden in the heart of the Father, has become Man." -St Thomas Comm[entary] On Tim[othy].. 1962/03/06 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 207] Jean Paul Sartre Anti-Semite and Jew There is unquestionably a great nobility in Sartre's morality of "authenticity," at least as he expresses it .. 1962/03/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 209] Hans Küng Council, Reform and Reunion Reading Hans Küng on The Council, Reform and Reunion [New York, 1961]. If I wanted to start copying bits of it.. 1962/03/10 [Ltrs: HGL p. 178] Hans Küng Council, Reform and Reunion You must by now have had a look at the new Hans Küng book, The Council, Reform and Reunion. If you have not, t.. 1962/03/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 572] Walter Stein (ed.) Nuclear Weapons: a Catholic Response "¦ I wanted to assure you that I knew the book edited by Walter Stein. At first I planned to use all of it in .. 1962/03/18 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 211-12] Karl Rahner On the Theology of Death Karl Rahner's [On the] Theology of Death [New York, 1961] is a most exciting book. First time I have been comp.. 1962/03/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 213] Hans Küng Council, Reform and Reunion Finishing the Küng book on The Council, Reform and Reunion. Tremendous, clear, outspoken. Will his hopes be re.. 1962/03/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 213] John Howard Griffin Black Like Me Yesterday finished the [John Howard] Griffin book Black Like Me, moved and disturbed. As someone said-what the.. 1962/03/28 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 47-48] John Howard Griffin Black Like Me Thanks above all for the [John Howard] Griffin book [Black Like Me]. I found it moving and important, and of c.. 1962/03/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 351] Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love Did you ever get anywhere with Julian of Norwich? Though it might not seem so at first sight, I think there is.. 1962/03/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 351] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls "¦ Where did I see, the other day, something about a new edition of The Mirror of Simple Souls, and definitely.. 1962/03/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 351] Paul Molinari Julian of Norwich: The Teachings of a Fourteenth Century Mystic "¦ Where did I see, the other day, something about a new edition of The Mirror of Simple Souls, and definitely.. 1962/04/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 49] Alacantara Mens Oorsprong en betekenis van de Nederlandse begijnen - en begardenbeweging. Vergelijkende studie XII-XIII eeuw When Rev. Dom Edward was here I did indeed speak to him about my interest in the Beguines in the Low Countries.. 1962/04/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 215] Frederic Meer, van der Augustine the Bishop Reading the Van der Meer book on Augustine, monumental (also expensive) and vastly interesting. Yet I am no lo.. 1962/04/12 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 49] Edward Teller Legacy of Hiroshima I have had the good fortune to receive and read a copy of the talk you gave in Washington last November. It wa.. 1962/04/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 216] Origenes Contra Celsum / Translated with an introduction & notes by Henry Chadwick Reading Origen, Contra Celsum... 1962/05/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 217] Hui-neng Platform scripture / Hui-neng ; (transl. and with an introd. and notes by Wing-tsit Chan) "Those who have the dharma should devote themselves only to its practice. Disputes arise from the desire for c.. 1962/05/01 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 217] Origenes Opera Omnia Contra Celsum is fascinating though I am tempted to renounce it as "getting nowhere." And yet if one follows .. 1962/05/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 217-18] Bernard Piault What Is the Trinity "If India were to hear the word of Christ and be converted, it is possible that she would be hardly capable of.. 1962/05/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 218] Edward Teller Legacy of Hiroshima Finishing at the same time the [Edward] Teller book. Legacy of Hiroshima. His convincing myth of the tactical .. 1962/05/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 218] Mircea Eliade Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy Fascinating books by Mircea Eliade. Finished (two days ago) Image and Symbol and began today the new one, Forg.. 1962/05/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 218] Mircea Eliade Images and symbols : studies in religious symbolism / Mircea Eliade ; transl. by Philip Mairet Fascinating books by Mircea Eliade. Finished (two days ago) Image and Symbol and began today the new one, Forg.. 1962/05/12 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 218-19] Tertullianus De Oratione Glorious 4th Chapter of Tertullian's De Oratione [On Prayer]. The Latin, sharp, austere, brilliant and torrid... 1962/05/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 219]   Cloud of Unknowing Rereading The Cloud-working over the essay on the English Mystics. Why? I hardly know. At first I thought it w.. 1962/05/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 536] Eliezer Steinmann garden of Hassidism / Eliezer Steinmann ; transl. from the Hebrew by Haim Shachter Glad you got The Banner "¦ I think it is a very interesting and illuminating book. So too is The Garden of Has.. 1962/05/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 536] Jacob B. Agus Banner of Jerusalem: a Biography of Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine in the 1930s. Glad you got The Banner "¦ I think it is a very interesting and illuminating book. So too is The Garden of Has.. 1962/05/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 221] Milarepa Sixty songs of Milarepa / transl. by Garma C.C. Chang ; select. and introd. by Bikkhu Khantipalo Have nearly finished Milarepa. Wrote to Dezhung Trulka about it (Tibetan Buddhist scholar at U. of Washington .. 1962/06/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 245] Bonaventura Collectiones in Haexemeron You might find interesting leads in Bouyer's new book Seat of Wisdom. And of course there is always Berdyaev ".. 1962/06/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 245] Gregory of Nyssa From Glory to Glory, Texts from Gregorius of Nyssa's Mystical Writings / Edited by J. Danielou/H. Musurillo You might find interesting leads in Bouyer's new book Seat of Wisdom. And of course there is always Berdyaev ".. 1962/06/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 245] Louis Bouyer Trône de la sagesse You might find interesting leads in Bouyer's new book Seat of Wisdom. And of course there is always Berdyaev ".. 1962/06/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 245] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet You might find interesting leads in Bouyer's new book Seat of Wisdom. And of course there is always Berdyaev ".. 1962/06/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 245] Thomas Trahern Centuries of Meditation You might find interesting leads in Bouyer's new book Seat of Wisdom. And of course there is always Berdyaev ".. 1962/06/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 224] Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto Pelerinage aux Sources Lanza del Vasto has seen a deep connection between play and war. Our society totally devoted to one (everythin.. 1962/06/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 224] Tertullianus Apologeticus adversos gentes pro christianis Wonderful insights in the Apologetic of Tertullian, more subtle than Hannah Arendt, and of the same kind: on t.. 1962/06/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 225] Cassiodorus De Anima The serene, pure music of Cassiodorus's prayer at the end of his De Anima [On the Soul]! What nobility of mind.. 1962/06/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 622] James Legge Chinese classics Paul Sih has obtained for me a wonderful reprint of the Legge translation of the Chinese Classics, and has als.. 1962/06/08 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 225] Cassiodorus De Anima O Cassiodorus, reading you is like coming home to everything germane to my spirit! The existential acuteness o.. 1962/06/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 225] Cassiodorus Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum I never thought I would discover in myself a hunger for something like Cassiodorus' Chapters on Rhetoric, or e.. 1962/06/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 226-27] Cassiodorus De Anima What more beautiful or more appropriate than these lines of Cassiodorus where he speaks of the soul as a light.. 1962/06/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 352] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls Many thanks for the good news about The Mirror of Simple Souls. It was very good of you to get in contact with.. 1962/06/26 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 159] Cassiodorus De Anima Now I have a little idea for something to print. It is a beatiful prayer of Cassiodorus at the end of his De A.. 1962/07/03 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 230] Edward Conze Selected sayings from the perfection of wisdom / chosen, arranged and transl. by Edward Conze Reading [Edward] Conze's superb selections on Perfect Wisdom. Prajnaparamita [perfection of wisdom]-My way. Wh.. 1962/07/03 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 229] Lactantius De Opifico Dei Discovery of Lactantius, particularly De Opificis Dei. Because I read and like St. Augustine and St. Gregory i.. 1962/07/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 145] Dietrich Hildebrand, von In Defense of Purity Transformation in Christ is a difficult book, and I let the novices read it without however pushing them. On t.. 1962/07/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 145] Dietrich Hildebrand, von Transformation in Christ Transformation in Christ is a difficult book, and I let the novices read it without however pushing them. On t.. 1962/07/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 145] Ida Friederieke Görres Hidden Face: A Study of St. Therese of Lisieux Bouyer on the Meaning of the Monastic Life we regard as standard. In an older context, there is Dom Marmion, a.. 1962/07/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 145] Louis Bouyer Meaning of the Monastic Life Bouyer on the Meaning of the Monastic Life we regard as standard. In an older context, there is Dom Marmion, a.. 1962/07/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 145] Romano Guardini Prayer in Practice Bouyer on the Meaning of the Monastic Life we regard as standard. In an older context, there is Dom Marmion, a.. 1962/07/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 230] Alan Harrington Life in the Crystal Palace Businesses are sects. They are little religions-at least in America. One believes in the product, and preaches.. 1962/07/09 [Ltrs: CforT p. 274] Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch It was good to hear from you. I have often thought of writing to you, and usually that is the first thing that.. 1962/07/09 [Ltrs: CforT p. 274] Henry Miller Colossus of Maroussi It was good to hear from you. I have often thought of writing to you, and usually that is the first thing that.. 1962/07/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 212] Jules Romains Men of Good Will "¦ By the way, talking of books: Jules Romains. I don't care what he thinks about the Church. It is just that .. 1962/07/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 230-31]   Regula Magistri Lately discovered the Regula Magistri [Rule of the Master] and began to take an interest in the whole questio.. 1962/07/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 231] Rose Macaulay Personal Pleasures Reading Rose MacCauley's Personal Pleasures-published 1935. Therefore her swim in the Cam [river in Cambridge].. 1962/07/14 [Ltrs: HGL p. 353-54] Sophocles Antigone I wonder if the best thing in the world to read in a period of night is Ruysbroeck? Personally I rather doubt .. 1962/07/14 [Ltrs: HGL p. 353-54] Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus I wonder if the best thing in the world to read in a period of night is Ruysbroeck? Personally I rather doubt .. 1962/07/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 233] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Essentials of Zen Buddhism In Louisville some weeks ago I found the new Suzuki anthology (Essentials of Zen B[uddhism, New York, 1962])-r.. 1962/07/28 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 234] Eucherius Contemptus Mundi Antigone and stoical tropes of St. Eucherius in his contemptus mundi, [rejection of the world]: the beauty of .. 1962/08/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 235] Hilarius Sermo de Vita Sancti Honorati Episcopi Arelatensis If I have the sense to keep to the writers of Christian antiquity, for the moment, for the next few months at .. 1962/08/07 [Ltrs: CforT p. 276] Henry Miller Colossus of Maroussi Now to other things for a moment: I am in the middle of The Wisdom of the Heart and it is you at your best. Th.. 1962/08/07 [Ltrs: CforT p. 276] Henry Miller Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud Now to other things for a moment: I am in the middle of The Wisdom of the Heart and it is you at your best. Th.. 1962/08/07 [Ltrs: CforT p. 276] Henry Miller Wisdom of the Heart Now to other things for a moment: I am in the middle of The Wisdom of the Heart and it is you at your best. Th.. 1962/08/11 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 162] Cassiodorus Introduction to Divine and Human Readings by Cassiodorus Senator / Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Jones Leslie Webber You have already sent me the book from Columbia. It is the edition of Cassiodorus's "Divine and Human Readings.. 1962/08/11 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 237] Henry Miller Wisdom of the Heart Henry Miller's tremendous essay on Raimu deeply significant, touches the real nerve of our time, the American .. 1962/08/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 210] Henry Miller Wisdom of the Heart Yes I have the H. Miller books, they got here with a brief delay. The Wisdom of the Heart is extraordinarily g.. 1962/08/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 134] Henry Miller Wisdom of the Heart I have been in contact with Henry Miller. He has written some extraordinary essays recently, especially a book.. 1962/08/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 237-38] Henry Miller Wisdom of the Heart Hot. Yesterday, the dip in the path to the woods beyond the sheep barn was like an oven. The breeze like the b.. 1962/08/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 237-38] Jacob Boehme Confessions of Jacob Boehme Hot. Yesterday, the dip in the path to the woods beyond the sheep barn was like an oven. The breeze like the b.. 1962/08/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 552] Hui-neng Platform scripture / Hui-neng ; (transl. and with an introd. and notes by Wing-tsit Chan) It is a long time since I received the remarkably interesting translation of the Platform Scripture and I ough.. 1962/08/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 239] Vinoba Bhave Talks on the Gita Returned, after a long time, to the unfinished book by Vinoba Bhave on the Gita. Great nobility and seriousnes.. 1962/08/30 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 240-41] Joseph Campbell Symbol without Meaning Interesting hypothesis of Joseph Campbell in Eranos Jahrbuch XXVI, p. 430 ff. That the mandala appears at end .. 1962/09/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 242] Lawrence Binyon Flight of the Dragon Beautiful lines of the Japanese poetess Komachi, quoted by L[awrence] Binyon in The Flight of the Dragon [Lond.. 1962/09/11 [Ltrs: HGL p. 579] Gordon C. Zahn German Catholics and Hitler's War: A Study in Social Control Fortunately there are laymen speaking up, and I think you continue to be among them. In Canada, Leslie Dewart .. 1962/09/15 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 247] James Farl Powers Morte d'Urban Finished [J. F.] Powers' new novel [Morte d' Urban, New York, 1962] yesterday - will perhaps review it for Wor.. 1962/09/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 242] Hans Küng Council, Reform and Reunion [Hans] Kung of course I read as soon as I could get my hands on him. I thought it a noble, straight and courag.. 1962/09/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 242] James Farl Powers Morte d'Urban I finished the new Powers novel [Morte d'Urban] which got to me from the publisher, before publication. It is .. 1962/09/21 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 248-49] Alfred Delp S.J. Prison Meditations of Father Alfred Delp Fr. [Godfrey] Diekmann definitely wants me to review the Powers book for Worship and it will be a pleasure. St.. 1962/09/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 250-51] Alfred Delp S.J. Prison Meditations of Father Alfred Delp Reading the magnificent Prison Meditations of Fr. Delp. In ms. I am to write the preface for Herder and Herder.. 1962/09/29 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 251-52] John of Salesbury Metalogicon This morning, in John of Salisbury, ran across a quote from the Georgics which has entered into the deepest pa.. 1962/09/29 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 251-52] Virgil Georgics This morning, in John of Salisbury, ran across a quote from the Georgics which has entered into the deepest pa.. 1962/10/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 254] Joseph Marie Parent Doctrine de la Creation dans l'Ecole de Chartres. Etude et textes A book has come (from the U. of Minnesota library, borrowed for me by Ray Livingston) La Doctrine de la Creati.. 1962/10/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 254] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls And the Mirror of Simple Souls which Etta Gullick sent. What a charming and wise book! Yet I think it is Margu.. 1962/10/07 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 254] Thomas Aquinas Suma Contra Gentiles A book has come (from the U. of Minnesota library, borrowed for me by Ray Livingston) La Doctrine de la Creati.. 1962/10/08 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 254] William of Conches Moralium Dogma Philosophorum The Moralium Dogma Philosophorum of Wm. of Conches is an utterly delightful book. Clear, full of wisdom, full .. 1962/10/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 256] R.L. Poole Masters of the Schools at Paris and Chartres in John of Salisbury's Time After dinner-reading about Abelard, in R. L. Poole. I have an enormous amount of sympathy and pity for Abelard.. 1962/10/11 [Ltrs: SofC p. 148] John Holberg (ed.) Moralium dogma philosophorum For some time I have been very interested in the 12th-century School of Chartres. The more I come to know of t.. 1962/10/11 [Ltrs: SofC p. 148] Joseph Marie Parent Doctrine de la Creation dans l'Ecole de Chartres. Etude et textes For some time I have been very interested in the 12th-century School of Chartres. The more I come to know of t.. 1962/10/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 25] Henry Vaughan Flores solitudinis Vaughan I hav"”one of my favorites. I once thought of bringing out an edition of his translation of Eucherius'.. 1962/10/22 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 67] James Farl Powers Morte d'Urban I do want to thank you for sending me your very incisive conference on Religion and the Mass Media. I have rea.. 1962/10/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 355] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls Thanks so much for The Mirror of Simple Souls. I am really enjoying it, though I find that I have a hard time .. 1962/10/30 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 262] Thierry of Chartres Hexameron I have been having good discussions in the evening, once a week with Dan Walsh, on the School of Chartres, usi.. 1962/10/30 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 262] William of Conches Moralium Dogma Philosophorum I have been having good discussions in the evening, once a week with Dan Walsh, on the School of Chartres, usi.. 1962/11/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 263] Denys Rutledge In Search of a Yogi Saturday I finished a preface to Dom Denys Rutledge's book In Search of a Yogi [New York, 1963]. It rambles to.. 1962/11/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 271] P.-R. (Pie-Raymond) Regamey Face à la violence : pour un statut des objecteurs de conscience / par P.-R. Regamey et J.-Y. Jolif. I have just received a fine new book, just a small one, in French, by Père Regamey and another Dominican on th.. 1962/11/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 20-21] Sergius Bolshakoff Russian Mystics I am editing and correcting a manuscript of a Russian Orthodox scholar called Bolshakoff, who is at Oxford but.. 1962/11/13 [Ltrs: SofC p. 153] Adalbert Vogüe, De o.s.b. La communaute et l'abbe dans la Règle de saint Benoît Finally I am reading Dom Adalbert de Vogüe's new book on the Rule of Saint Benedict and the Rule of the Master.. 1962/11/13 [Ltrs: SofC p. 153] Sergius Bolshakoff Russian Mystics About the Bolshakoff ms. [The Russian Mystics, later published by Cistercian Publications], only a few weeks a.. 1962/11/13 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 264] William of Chonces Philosophia Mundi Finishing Wm. of Conches' Philosophia Mundi [Philosophy of the World]-the plan is interesting, and having disc.. 1962/11/16 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 265] Ignace Lepp Christian Failure Am reading Ignace Lepp's The Christian Future, which concerns me deeply. I have never had any doubts about my .. 1962/11/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 136] Ernesto Cardenal Epigramas: Poemas Yes I have received your Epigrams: they are magnificent. The Revolutionary Poetry of Nicaragua [Poesía revoluc.. 1962/11/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 136] Ernesto Cardenal Literatura indigena americana: Antología Your poems about the Indians have been simply superb. I am sure your whole book [Literatura indígena americana.. 1962/11/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 137] Ernesto Cardenal Salmos Your Psalms [Salmos] are terrific. Those are the versions we should really be chanting in choir. How few monks.. 1962/11/20 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 267] Ignace Lepp From Karl Marx to Jesus Christ "The trouble is that communism long ago ceased to be a truly progressive force and has formed the worst type o.. 1962/11/22 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 324] J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey What have I read of his? I started Franny and Zooey. That is to say, I started Franny, and after that I starte.. 1962/11/24 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 267] Boethius De Hebdomadibus From Chartres back to BBoethius: De Hebdomadibus. Magnificent meditation on being and existence!.. 1962/11/27 [Ltrs: SofC p. 157-58] Adalbert Vogüe, De o.s.b. La communaute et l'abbe dans la Règle de saint Benoît The book of Fr. Adalbert [de Vogüe] (La Communaute et l‘Abbe) is exceptionally good. It is one of the best t.. 1962/11/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 75] Daniel Berrigan S.J. World for Wedding Ring Just got your blanks from the Goggenbuch Stipend House. I will write you up a litany of praises that will knoc.. 1962/11/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 328] Ralph E. Lapp Kill and Overkill This is a rather hasty note to bring to your attention a most important book. It is by a nuclear scientist, an.. 1962/12/09 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 272] Harrison Evans Salesbury A New Russia? The new book of Harrison Salisbury [A New Russia, New York, 1962] shows there is a surprisingly deep rift betw.. 1962/12/09 [Ltrs: HGL p. 411] Harrison Evans Salesbury A New Russia? This is chiefly to thank you for the books. The Wright Millses were both terrific, as usual. The one on the La.. 1962/12/09 [Ltrs: HGL p. 411] Ralph E. Lapp Kill and Overkill I have recently read the Lapp book, Kill and Overkill, and I think it is very important for this book to get t.. 1962/12/11 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 274] Rachel Carson Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling I have been shocked at a notice of a new book, by Rachel Carson [Silent Spring], on what is happening to birds.. 1962/12/11 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 96] Ralph E. Lapp Kill and Overkill I got a letter from Jim Douglass this morning. It was a good one, too. I think I will send "Peace in the PC" .. 1962/12/18 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 278] Raïssa Maritain Journal de Raïssa Jacques Maritain has sent Raissa's journal, a most moving and lucid and soulcleansing book. It is wonderful to.. 1962/12/18 [Ltrs: CforT p. 33] Raïssa Maritain Journal de Raïssa I am overwhelmed by Raissa's Journal. How to put it? You must know better than I do. This document is like the.. 1962/12/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 281] Raïssa Maritain Journal de Raïssa Jacques Maritain sent Raissa's Journal, a most remarkable book full of clarity and simplicity. She had an unus.. 1962/12/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 102] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov My work with your Russian Mystics proceeds slowly as there are many other duties to be performed. I am now in .. 1962/12/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 102] Sergius Bolshakoff Russian Mystics My work with your Russian Mystics proceeds slowly as there are many other duties to be performed. I am now in .. 1963/00/00 [Ltrs: CforT p. 141] Hui-neng Platform scripture / Hui-neng ; (transl. and with an introd. and notes by Wing-tsit Chan) I am sending you John Wu's translation of the Tao Te Ching. The same place has published a translation of an i.. 1963/00/00 [Ltrs: CforT p. 141] Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching / Translated by John C.H. Wu I am sending you John Wu's translation of the Tao Te Ching. The same place has published a translation of an i.. 1963/01/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 286] Abraham Joshua Heschel Prophets Began reading Heschel's new book, which he sent, on the Prophets [New York, 1962]. Exactly the kind of approac.. 1963/01/11 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 217] Rachel Carson Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling I am reading the Rachel Carson book, Silent Spring. That too is powerful. Have you seen it? You certainly shou.. 1963/01/11 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 216] Ralph E. Lapp Kill and Overkill First of all, I am sorry for not responding more quickly about the books on peace. I suppose I wait to read th.. 1963/01/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 213-14] Rachel Carson Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling I am just reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Have you read it? You must. It is very enlightening, because .. 1963/01/12 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 70] Rachel Carson Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling Anne Ford very kindly sent me your latest book, Silent Spring, which I am reading carefully and with great con.. 1963/01/18 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 290] Thomas Aquinas De Divinis Moribus Cleaned out the room yesterday. What a relief! That even the order of my room-is pleasing to God (as well as t.. 1963/01/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 293] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello This morning the morning star above in the sky. Read Ruysbroeck's Livre de la plus haute verite [Book of the H.. 1963/01/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 431-32] Abraham Joshua Heschel Prophets It is a great pleasure to have received your fine book on The Prophets. I have been anticipating this for a lo.. 1963/01/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 294] Sulpicius Severus Dialogues Last day of retreat. Reading Rufinus Historia Monachorum and also Dialogues of Sulpicius Severus. Utterly asha.. 1963/01/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 294] Tyrannius Rufinus Historia Monachorum in Aegypto Last day of retreat. Reading Rufinus Historia Monachorum and also Dialogues of Sulpicius Severus. Utterly asha.. 1963/01/28 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 294-95] Heinrich Dumoulin S.J. history of Zen Buddhism / Heinrich Dumoulin ; transl. from the German by Paul Peachey Wm. Miller, of the FOR [Fellowship of Reconciliation] and Paul Peachey of the Church Peace Mission were here-a.. 1963/01/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 103] Sergius Bolshakoff Russian Mystics You will be glad to hear that I have finished all the work on the revision of your manuscript and it is now be.. 1963/02/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 36] Raïssa Maritain Chagall: Ou l'orage enchantre "¦ Thanks especially for Chagall. This is a wonderful book to have. It is a whole world in itself, full of joy.. 1963/02/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244] Ignace Lepp Christian Failure Good job, moving up Ignace Lepp to the front of the shelf in the book mart. I did a review of the book [The Ch.. 1963/02/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244] James Baldwin Fire Next Time One of the things I did read was a manifesto by the Negro writer James Baldwin on the race situation. It is po.. 1963/02/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 297] James Baldwin Fire Next Time Have read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and now Nobody Knows My Name. He seems to know exactly what he is.. 1963/02/23 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 297] James Baldwin Nobody knows my name Have read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and now Nobody Knows My Name. He seems to know exactly what he is.. 1963/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 138] Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto Pelerinage aux Sources Yes, I know Lanza Del Vasto. There was a Jewish student of mysticism here who had visited the Community of L d.. 1963/02/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 299] John of the Cross Obras de San Juan de la Cruz / edit. y anot. por P. Silverio de Santa Teresa Found fine things in the Mirror of Simple Souls [Marguerite Porete] (Dia. IX) today, and am reading the Living.. 1963/02/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 299] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls Found fine things in the Mirror of Simple Souls [Marguerite Porete] (Dia. IX) today, and am reading the Living.. 1963/03/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 301] Gregorio Penco Storia del monachesimo in Italia: Dalle origini alla fine del medio evo For my Lenten book I have [Gregorio] Penco's competent History of Italian Monasticism (in Italian, pleasantly .. 1963/03/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 304] Jacques Maritain Dream of Descartes I read Maritain's essay on Descartes today (in connection with Fenelon, but it is revealing in relation to Zen.. 1963/03/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 306] François de Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon Lettres Spirituelles "Ecoutez Dieu et point vous-même: làest la vraie liberte, paix et joie du Saint Esprit." ["Listen to God and .. 1963/03/27 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 306] Patrick Dolan Unity and Reform: Selected Writings of Nicholas of Cusa After dinner began a book on Nicholas of Cusa recently requested by the library-(Dolan, introduction and selec.. 1963/03/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 37] Raïssa Maritain Notes sur le Pater Did I ever tell you how much I liked Raïssa's Notes sur le Pater? It is a really precious book, a perfect comm.. 1963/04/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 310] Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Adolf Eichmann, in his last words at the foot of the gallows- Declared himself a Gottes[un]gläubiger-(one who .. 1963/04/16 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 314] Etienne Gilson Unity of Philosophical Experience Reading [Etienne] Gilson's The Unity of Philosophical Experience [New York, 1948]-very lively and articulate... 1963/04/20 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 314] Aelred Graham Zen Catholicism I received a letter from Dom Aelred Graham in answer to a card about his book on Zen Catholicism, which I have.. 1963/05/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244] Aelred Graham Zen Catholicism Correspondence gets bigger all the time, and things one must answer right away, very often. For instance, this.. 1963/05/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244] John Howard Griffin Black Like Me Have you read John Howard Griffin's books? You ought to get hold of Black Like Me. It will floor you. He is a .. 1963/05/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 583] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls Recently I have read The Mirror of Simple Souls, which Etta Gullick lent me. It is a marvelous book, and has s.. 1963/05/08 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 316-17] Ambrosius Hexaemeron The other day, on the advice of Notker Balbulus, "If you love God's creatures, read Ambrose's Hexaemeron," I .. 1963/05/08 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 317] François de Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon Lettres Spirituelles Finished the preface to Fenelon's letters the other day... 1963/05/10 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 286] Gordon C. Zahn German Catholics and Hitler's War: A Study in Social Control Your manuscript has arrived and I am about halfway through it. The book is terrific. You are very clear, convi.. 1963/05/10 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 317] Leslie Dewart Christianity and Revolution Les[lie] Dewart has sent the ms. of his important book on Cuba. The first thing I have seen that makes sense o.. 1963/05/10 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 286] Leslie Dewart Christianity and Revolution Your manuscript has arrived and I am about halfway through it. The book is terrific. You are very clear, convi.. 1963/05/10 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 297] Xavier Rynne Letters from Vatican City The Xavier Rynne book [Letters from Vatican City: Vatican Council I, First Season; Backgrounds and Debates] ar.. 1963/05/11 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 319] Louis Massignon Parole donnee / Louis Massignon ; introd. de Vincent Monteil "La finalite bistorique doit devenir ‘interieurement' et librement intelligible, car elle concerne la person.. 1963/05/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 278] Alfred Perles My Friend, Henri Miller: An Intimate Biography Thanks for all your cards. I have been thinking of you a lot since I have been reading A[lfred] Perlès's book .. 1963/05/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 322] Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy Reading [Werner] Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy [New York, 1958], which is an exciting book. The uncertai.. 1963/05/29 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 324] Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy Heisenberg-on the impact of technical and scientific knowledge upon traditional cultures, etc. This "process".. 1963/06/00 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 288] Leslie Dewart Christianity and Revolution Your manuscript on the Cuban revolution and on the ambivalence, hesitations, and withdrawal of the Cuban Churc.. 1963/06/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 54]   Way of the Pilgrim Yes, I know the Way of the Pilgrim very well. It is a fine book. The Russian mystics are too little known. I b.. 1963/06/02 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 326] Gregorius the Great Homiliae in Evangelia Redite parvuli fili ad sinum matris vestrae aeternae sapientiae, sugite larga ubera pietatis Dei; transacta pl.. 1963/06/04 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 328] Grimlaicus Regula Solitariorum (Contemplativus) res mundi mundo profecit, et seipsum Christo devota mente restituit, a quo sibi donari immort.. 1963/06/05 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 328] Grimlaicus Regula Solitariorum Peculiariter autem ad professionem nostram pertinet nihil honoris in hac vita requirere sed honores fuger"¦.[I.. 1963/06/10 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 96] Louis Bouyer (ed.) HIstoire de la spiritualité chrétienne I liked very much some of your pages on St. Gregory in the Histoire de la spiritualité chrétienne. I have used.. 1963/06/11 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 330] Dorothy Day Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Storey of the Catholic Worker Movement Proofs of Dorothy Day's new book came from Harper (with a request for comment). It looks good... 1963/06/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 214] Frederick Crossfield Happold Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology Thanks for the letter and the packets of things. I was especially glad of the little Pelican on Mysticism [by .. 1963/06/14 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 228] Lewis Mumford City in History I am finally getting down to reading theat great big book of Mumford's the City in History, and it is great... 1963/06/18 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 334] R.W. Southern Life of St. Anselm, Archbisshop of Canterbury I finished my article on St. Anselm and the ontological argument but am still reading the R. W. Southern book,.. 1963/06/23 [Ltrs: HGL p. 625] Hui-neng Platform scripture / Hui-neng ; (transl. and with an introd. and notes by Wing-tsit Chan) Paul Sih has sent me the Platform Scripture and it is handsomely done. He wants me to write a review of it, an.. 1963/06/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 276] Dorothy Day Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Storey of the Catholic Worker Movement I read the proofs of Dorothy's book [Loaves and Fishes] and gave it a good boost for Harper's "¦.. 1963/06/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 275] P.D. East Magnolia Jungle; The Life, Times and Education of a Southern Editor Thanks for the last two letters and enclosures. About the business in Miss., the murder of Evers and the rest... 1963/06/26 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 333] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion Have read St. Anselm's Proslogion [A Discourse] and having for the first time considered the ontological argum.. 1963/06/29 [Ltrs: SofC p. 176-77]   Way of the Pilgrim Personally I like the Way of the Pilgrim and it is a good stimulating book to read. The ideas are good, but we.. 1963/06/29 [Ltrs: SofC p. 176-77] Jean-Marie Dechanet o.s.b. Christian Yoga Personally I like the Way of the Pilgrim and it is a good stimulating book to read. The ideas are good, but we.. 1963/07/00 [Ltrs: HGL p. 464] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas First of all, I hope you will forgive the typewriter. I do not type well, but my writing is worse, and I am us.. 1963/07/14 [Ltrs: SofC p. 178] Aurelius Augustinus De Musica Your ideas on music are of course very monastic and I am sure if you wanted to you could find some thrilling t.. 1963/07/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 337] Desiderius Erasmus Ratio Verae Theologiae We have now the new photocopied edition of Erasmus, and I am reading the Ratio Verae Theologiae. I admit I am .. 1963/07/14 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 337] Karl Rahner Mary, Mother of the Lord We have now the new photocopied edition of Erasmus, and I am reading the Ratio Verae Theologiae. I admit I am .. 1963/07/16 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 171] Paul Standard e.a. Chapters of Writing and Printing By the way I forgot to say how much I liked the little books, Carolyn's history of the press, and Victor's gre.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166]   Bhagavad Gita The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Aurelius Augustinus De Doctrina Christiana The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Aurelius Augustinus Exposition on the Book of Psalms The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Benedict of Nurcia Rule The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] David Knowles o.s.b. Historian and Character and other Essays The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 340] Desiderius Erasmus Ratio Verae Theologiae I am halfway through the Ratio Verae Theologiae of Erasmus, loving the clarity of his style, his taste, his go.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Desiderius Erasmus Ratio Verae Theologiae The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Eckhart Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Hui-neng Platform scripture / Hui-neng ; (transl. and with an introd. and notes by Wing-tsit Chan) The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] James Baldwin Fire Next Time The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Johan Huizinga Homo ludens : a study of the play-element in culture The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 340] P. Ladeuze Essai sur le cenobitisme pakhômien Diligebat autem anachoresios plurimos, frequenter expetens solitudinem. Et illic dies in oratione persistens d.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] William Blake Complete writings : with all the variant readings / William Blake ; ed. by Geoffrey Keynes The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/19 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 166] William Melvin Kelley Different Drummer The following are the questions, with Merton's answers:1. Name the last three books you have read. The Platfo.. 1963/07/22 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 342] Karl Rahner Mission and Grace: Essays in Pastoral Theology I am reading Karl Rahner's essays on grace-at least those available in translation, as I do not have time to s.. 1963/07/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 362] A.M. Allchin Silent Rebellion: Anglican Religious Communities 1845-1900 Talking about Cowley, Fr. A. M. Allchin, of Pusey House (I suppose you must know him), is coming here next wee.. 1963/07/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 361] R.W. Southern Life of St. Anselm, Archbisshop of Canterbury I have been reading a very fine book of R. W. Southern on St. Anselm. I suppose you must know Southern. I thin.. 1963/07/29 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 347] A.M. Allchin Silent Rebellion: Anglican Religious Communities 1845-1900 There are some very stirring quotations on religious life, from Anglicans, in A. M. Allchin's Silent Rebellion.. 1963/07/30 [Jnl 4 ('60-'63) p. 350] Georges Bernanos Journal d'un cure de campagne "Je crois de plus que ce que nous appelons tristesse, angoisse, desespoir, comme pour nous persuader qu'il s'a.. 1963/08/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 3] Anselmus of Canterbury De Libertate Arbitrii Finished St. Anselm's dialogue De Libero Arbitrio today with great enjoyment. Clarity and strength of his dial.. 1963/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 5] Anselmus of Canterbury De Veritate I am reading St. Anselm's De Veritate and the delight of the book is mysterious, clear, contemplative. It is v.. 1963/08/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 6] Augustine Baker Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrude More / dom Benedict Weld-Blundell, ed. Have borrowed [Augustine] Baker's Life of Dame Gertrude More [The Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrud.. 1963/08/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 45-46] Mark Van Doren Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963 Thanks for the letter and above all for the book [Van Doren's Collected and New Poems, 1924"”1963]. THE book i.. 1963/08/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 11] Owen Chadwick From Bossuet to Newman: the Idea of Doctrinal Development Reading William Owen Chadwick's excellent essay From Bossuet to Newman - idea of doctrinal development. Distur.. 1963/08/21 [Ltrs: SofC p. 181] David Knowles o.s.b. Historian and Character and other Essays Years ago you recommended that I get to know Newman, and I did not see your point. I certainly do now, not tha.. 1963/08/21 [Ltrs: SofC p. 181] Owen Chadwick From Bossuet to Newman: the Idea of Doctrinal Development Years ago you recommended that I get to know Newman, and I did not see your point. I certainly do now, not tha.. 1963/08/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 12] Augustine Baker Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrude More / dom Benedict Weld-Blundell, ed. However, I had a good morning (yesterday) working on Baker's life of Dame Gertrude More-a very wise and beauti.. 1963/08/28 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 14] Edmund Wilson Apologies to the Iroquois with a Study of the Mohawks in High Steel Edmund Wilson's book Apology to the Iroquois is the kind of thing that moves me very deeply, more deeply than .. 1963/09/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 14] Anselmus of Canterbury Orationes et Meditationes Tu ipse elementer dispone me et omnes cogitatus et actus meos in beneplacito tuo, ut fiat a me et in me et de .. 1963/09/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 15] Robert Charles Zaehner Matter and Spirit: Their Convergence in Eastern Religions, Marx and Teilhard de Chardin [Robert Charles] Zaehner's new book, Matter and Spirit, is an attempted synthesis of Marxist Christianity with.. 1963/09/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 147] Dorothy Day Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Storey of the Catholic Worker Movement You know by now how much I enjoyed your book [Loaves and Fishes]. Am reading James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the.. 1963/09/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 147] James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain You know by now how much I enjoyed your book [Loaves and Fishes]. Am reading James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the.. 1963/09/05 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 230] Xavier Rynne Letters from Vatican City I saw the Xavier Rynne book: who hasn't? I think it is pretty good, but I think the tone of conspiracy and fan.. 1963/09/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 16] Augustine Baker Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrude More / dom Benedict Weld-Blundell, ed. Spent an hour or more on Baker's Inner Life of Dame Gertrude carefully reading the chapters on "Divine Inspira.. 1963/09/15 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 173] Iris Origo Leopardi: A Study in Solitude I am enjoying the Leopardi [note 153: Iris Origo, Leopardi: A Study of Solitude (London: Oxford University Pre.. 1963/09/15 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 172-73] Victor Hammer Concern for the Art of Civilized Man About your book, I wanted to say how excellent it is [note 151: Victor Hammer, Concern for the Art of Civilize.. 1963/09/15 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 73] Victor Hammer Concern for the Art of Civilized Man I am enjoying the Leopardi book in the hospital and will look forward to doing the translations. All best wish.. 1963/09/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 17-18] Iris Origo Leopardi: A Study in Solitude Iris Origo's life of [Giacomo] Leopardi [Leopardi: A Study in Solitude, 1935] was a fascinating discovery (not.. 1963/09/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 17] Jean Paul Sartre Literature & existentialism / Jean Paul Sartre ; transl. from the French by Bernard Frechtman Sartre's Literature and Existentialism on the other hand is powerful and convincing, though his historical syn.. 1963/09/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 17] Karl Barth Fides quaerens intellectum : la preuve de l'existence de dieu d'après Anselme de Cantorbery / Karl Barth ; trad. francaise de Jean Carrère I have been able to do a lot of reading. Some on Barth's view of St. Anselm (very penetrating explanation of A.. 1963/09/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 17] Morris West Shoes of the Fisherman Wasted my time reading Morris West's Shoes of the Fisherman. Superficial and naive. A Ukranian Pope falls in l.. 1963/09/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 18] Yevgeny Yevtushenko Precocious Autobiography Finally-[Yevgeny] Yevtushenko's autobiography [A Precocious Autobiography, 1963]. Unquestionably good, lively,.. 1963/09/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 19] Anselmus of Canterbury Cur Deus Homo? Tonight at the grotto, after saying office, read some of the fabulous chapters of [St. Anselm's] Cur Deus Homo.. 1963/09/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 19] Jean Paul Sartre Age of Reason In contrast I skimmed through Sartre's Age of Reason which at first (the other day) I had decided not to read .. 1963/09/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 20] Karl Barth Dogmatics in Outline A magnificent line from Karl Barth. "Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought.. 1963/10/03 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 181] Edgar Wind Art and Anarchy: The Reith Lectures Yesterday I finished Art and Anarchy and am returning it. - really an exceptionally good book. All the essays .. 1963/10/03 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 246-47] Morris West Shoes of the Fisherman I read the Shoes of the Fisherman in the hospital & thought it rather naive & after all timid & passive. Pope .. 1963/10/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 22] Frithjof Schuon Comprendre l'Islam Two minds more different than those of Karl Barth and Frithjof Schuon would be hard to imagine, yet I am readi.. 1963/10/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 22] Marco Pallis Way and the Mountain Two minds more different than those of Karl Barth and Frithjof Schuon would be hard to imagine, yet I am readi.. 1963/10/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 465] Marco Pallis Way and the Mountain I want to thank you especially for the books you so kindly sent. First of all, your own The Way and the Mounta.. 1963/10/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 465-66] Martin Lings Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy And now above all, thank you for the superb book on Ahmad Al 'Alawi [by Martin Lings], superb because of its s.. 1963/10/07 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 22] Ida Friederike Görres Broken Lights: Diaries and Letters of Ida Görres 1951-1959 Yesterday began Ida Göerres' diaries which are very lovely. She is one of the most alert and honest Catholic m.. 1963/10/08 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 24] Frithjof Schuon Comprendre l'Islam When Schuon writes about Mohammed, one wonders to what extent he is surreptitiously using ideas suggested by t.. 1963/10/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 24] Jose Maria Gironella One Million Dead Began [Jose María] Gironella's One Million Dead... 1963/10/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 24] Zoe Oldenbourg Massacre at Monsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade The last time I was in Louisville to see the Doctor I got two books on the Albigensians by Zoe Oldenbourg [Des.. 1963/10/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 41] Zoe Oldenbourg Massacre at Monsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade I have been thinking of Toulouse, as I have come across some rather interesting books about the Albigensians (.. 1963/10/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 55-56] Frithjof Schuon Comprendre l'Islam I have just finished reading the [Frithjof] Schuon book on Islam, in French. It strikes me as one of his best .. 1963/10/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 55] Martin Lings Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy First of all, thank you for the remarkable book on Ahmad Al-'Alawi [Martin Lings, A Modern Saint of the Twenti.. 1963/10/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 363] Martin Lings Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy A Martin Lings has done what I think is a very fine study of a Moslem called Ahmad Al-'Alawi. I have an extra .. 1963/10/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 363] Zoe Oldenbourg Massacre at Monsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade Have you read any of Zoe Oldenbourg's books about the Albigensians? Very moving and disturbing. She is right i.. 1963/10/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 25] Augustine Baker Inner Life and the Writings of Dame Gertrude More / dom Benedict Weld-Blundell, ed. I have been reading Dame Gertrude More. Will send you a thing about her and also some other mimeographed bookl.. 1963/10/22 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 25] Zoe Oldenbourg Destiny of Fire The book Destiny of Fire, a novel, is far more powerful and "bouleversant" ["upsetting"] than the history. A.. 1963/10/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 26] Raïssa Maritain Notes sur le Pater The other day I finished a short preface to Julie Kernan's translation of Raïssa [Maritain]'s Notes sur le Pat.. 1963/10/24 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 26] Karl Barth Dogmatics in Outline "To be a man means to be situated in God's presence as Jesus is, that is, to be a bearer of the wrath of God.".. 1963/10/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 27] Julien Green Each in His Darkness "One thing still holds, and only this one thing is really serious, that Jesus is the victor. A seriousness tha.. 1963/10/28 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 28] Anselmus of Canterbury Cur Deus Homo? I have suddenly grasped the magnificent Chapter I.9 of Cur Deus Homo? [by St. Anselm]. Read it in the hospital.. 1963/10/28 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 28] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion I have suddenly grasped the magnificent Chapter I.9 of Cur Deus Homo? [by St. Anselm]. Read it in the hospital.. 1963/10/29 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 29] Karl Barth Dogmatics in Outline Again. Barth's bestiary. This time the Church is not a snail. "The Church runs like a herald to deliver the me.. 1963/10/29 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 132] Raïssa Maritain Notes sur le Pater Jacques [Maritain] cabled me today that he was happy with a preface I had written for Raissa's Notes sur le Pa.. 1963/10/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 30] Robert Charles Zaehner Hindu and Muslim Mysticism Finally getting into Zaehner's Hindu and Muslim Mysticism, a remarkable book. And convincing... 1963/11/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 31] Eadmer Life of St. Anselm / ed. R.W. Southern There is a wonderful therapeutic atmosphere about Eadmer's life of Anselm [The Life of St. Anselm, ed. R. W. S.. 1963/11/09 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 247] Julien Green Each in His Darkness There is a new magazine starting up at the University of Iowa [Charlatan ], run by Episcopalians. I don't know.. 1963/11/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 32-33] Robert Charles Zaehner Matter and Spirit: Their Convergence in Eastern Religions, Marx and Teilhard de Chardin Finished some notes on Zaehner's Teilhardian pamphlet on Matter and Spirit which is good in intention, poor an.. 1963/11/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 82] Jose Maria Gironella One Million Dead I agree with you on your dislike of fiction and can't read most novels even when I try, but now I am well into.. 1963/11/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 81] Quintus Horace Odes I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have .. 1963/11/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 81] Virgil Georgics I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have .. 1963/11/12 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 33] Nicholas of Cusa Opuscula On the other hand I think that reading Sartre's L'Être et le néant is going to be important for me. (However, .. 1963/11/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 34] Nicholas of Cusa Opuscula Nicholas of Cusa: opening up. Magnificent discovery. I have been on to him for a while, but not realizing how .. 1963/11/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 36] Anselmus of Canterbury De Casu Diaboli Began Anselm's De Casu Diaboli - not because of yesterday, but I have been interested to get to it for a long .. 1963/11/21 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 309] Dietrich Hildebrand, von In Defense of Purity By the way, there is a book ostensibly for nuns, etc., but which besides virginity also treats married love qu.. 1963/11/21 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 309] Erich Fromm Art of Loving: an Enquiry into the Nature of Love Probably one of the most practical books I can recommend is Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, which is publishe.. 1963/11/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 363] Lancelot Andrewes Preces Privatae Just a word of thanks for the books, Wm. Law, and Lancelot Andrewes. I am so glad to have them both, particula.. 1963/11/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 38] Anselmus of Canterbury De Casu Diaboli How close is the tricherie [trickery] of Sartre to the rectitudo of St. Anselm? Is there any correspondence be.. 1963/11/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 38] Jean Paul Sartre être et le neant : essai d'ontologie phenomenologique / par J.-P. Sartre How close is the tricherie [trickery] of Sartre to the rectitudo of St. Anselm? Is there any correspondence be.. 1963/11/26 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 235] Jean Paul Sartre Nausée : roman Do you have a copy of Sartre's Nausée around in French? I know you did it in English. I am workingon hum a lot.. 1963/11/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 39] Jean Paul Sartre Respectful Prostitute Read Sartre's Respectful Prostitute. All I had ever heard about it ran it down, but it is a smasher! Best thin.. 1963/12/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 41] Anselmus of Canterbury De Casu Diaboli The seventeenth chapter of De Casu Diaboli brings up a very modern question - our creativity, that is, the cre.. 1963/12/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 42] Anselmus of Canterbury De Casu Diaboli I finished De Casu Diaboli. If a first reading can be said to finish such a book. Must go through it again. Es.. 1963/12/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 42-43] Jose Maria Gironella One Million Dead Am well on the way to finishing Gironella's great book (One Million Dead). Great in size, and a very competent.. 1963/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 43]   Pilgrimage of Etheria / translation of Peregrinatio Aetheriae Another Spanish writer-fourth-century Egeria (Etheria, "Sylvia") and her amazing Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Egy.. 1963/12/07 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 236] Kenneth Rexroth Natural Numbers: New and Selected Poems The new Rexroth is very good too. I certainly like his poems. They are clear and alive. he has a classic touch.. 1963/12/07 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 235-36] William Carlos Williams Paterson Thanks also for [William Carlos Williams's] Patterson. It is impressive to have the whole thing in one, and I .. 1963/12/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 585] Rolf Hochhuth Deputy / Translation from the German Der Stellvertreter I have been asked to write some notes on a notorious play [Hochhuth's The Deputy] which treats Pius XII as a r.. 1963/12/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 651] Rolf Hochhuth Deputy / Translation from the German Der Stellvertreter As to Hochhuth: yes, I have read the play [The Deputy] and have dashed off some notes on it which George Lawle.. 1963/12/15 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 45] Tom Stonier Nuclear Disaster Reading Tom Stonier's Nuclear Disaster. A frightful book. Descriptions of the destruction, death and suffering.. 1963/12/15 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 45] Werner Georg Kümmel Man in the New Testament / trans. John J. Vincent Interesting notes on New Testament anthropology in Werner Georg Kümmel [Man in the New Testament, trans. John .. 1963/12/15 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 45] Werner Georg Kümmel Man in the New Testament / trans. John J. Vincent Of [Rudolf Karl] Bultmann: "Pauline anthropology is as a statement an act of the new life and not an anthropol.. 1963/12/16 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 46] Werner Georg Kümmel Man in the New Testament / trans. John J. Vincent The great value of the Kümmel book is its affirmation, conclusively proven, that in the New Testament man's si.. 1963/12/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 47] Maurice Merleau-Ponty In Praise of Philosophy / transl. of Eloge de la philosophy et autres essays (Paris 1960) [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty says: "Nothing can be explained by way of man, for he is not a strength but a weakness.. 1963/12/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 47] Bahya ibn Pakuda Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs / transl. André Chouraqui, 1943 Zwi Werblowsky has sent Bahya [ben Joseph] ibn Pakuda in the remarkable [André] Chouraqui translation. This is.. 1963/12/22 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 48] Maurice Merleau-Ponty In Praise of Philosophy / transl. of Eloge de la philosophy et autres essays (Paris 1960) Merleau-Ponty says: "Je suis a moi au etant au mond" ["I am to myself as being in the world"]. And this woul.. 1963/12/27 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 51] Herbert Spiegelberg Phenomenological Movement: a Historical Introduction Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of man's unfinished business (Herbert Spiegelberg) [The Phenomenological M.. 1964/01/00 [Ltrs: CforT p. 281] Walker Percy Moviegoer There is no easy way to thank you for your book. Not only are the good words about books all used up and ruine.. 1964/01/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 586] Bahya ibn Pakuda Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs / transl. André Chouraqui, 1943 First of all I want to thank you for the Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs [by Bahya] which has arrived. I r.. 1964/01/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 52-53] Rudolf Bultmann Form Criticism: Two Essays on New Testament Research Sense of God all day. Now Bultmann's idea of God (evening, before Night Watch). Our care meets Him at the end .. 1964/01/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 54] Harold John Blackham Six Existential Thinkers [Martin] Heidegger's notion that the realization and acceptance of death is the guarantee of authenticity in l.. 1964/01/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 55] Rudolf Bultmann Form Criticism: Two Essays on New Testament Research Bultmann's Essays have been a revelation to me, so powerful, so urgent, so important that every sentence stops.. 1964/01/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 364] Karl Jaspers Way to Wisdom You ask about spiritual books. I have been reading all sorts of things, things which I find spiritual. Rudolf .. 1964/01/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 364] Rudolf Bultmann Form Criticism: Two Essays on New Testament Research You ask about spiritual books. I have been reading all sorts of things, things which I find spiritual. Rudolf .. 1964/01/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 60] Harold John Blackham Six Existential Thinkers Blackham, writing of Sartre, says wisely that "popular wisdom" easily accepts extreme views but not disturbin.. 1964/01/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 59] Rudolf Bultmann Form Criticism: Two Essays on New Testament Research Much as I disagree with some of Bultmann's statements on non-Christian religions I cannot help being swayed an.. 1964/01/12 [Ltrs: SofC p. 195] Irenee Hausherr Solitude et vie contemplative d'après l'Hesychasme First I want to thank you for your kindness in sending me the mimeograph of P. Hausherr's study on Hesychasm. .. 1964/01/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 61] Karl Jaspers Plato and Augustine / edited by Hannah Arendt Jaspers talks of the "Augustinian turnabout." At one moment Augustine is saying "let none of us say he has al.. 1964/01/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 62-63] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Signes For Merleau-Ponty our body is not an apparatus which, directed by the Spirit, makes use of pre-existing signs .. 1964/01/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 63-64] Anselmus of Canterbury Opera Omnia / ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt o.s.b. I wonder if anyone reads the monastic letters, etc. of Abelard. They are full of fine traditional material, in.. 1964/01/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 64] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Signes "Le romancier tient à son lecteur, et tout homme à tout homme, un language d'inities: inities au monde, à l'un.. 1964/01/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 63-64] Petrus Abaelardus Epistolae I wonder if anyone reads the monastic letters, etc. of Abelard. They are full of fine traditional material, in.. 1964/01/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 64] Walker Percy Moviegoer The great impact of Walker Percy's Moviegoer is that the whole book says in reality what the hero is not and e.. 1964/01/19 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 65] Anselmus of Canterbury Orationes et Meditationes Then this morning in Anselm's Meditations and Orations-I find his "Digne, certe, digne!" ["Fitting, certainly.. 1964/01/19 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 65] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Signes Merleau-Ponty again-from Husserl-"Penser n'estpasposseder des objets de pensee, c'est circonscrire par eux un .. 1964/01/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 66] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Signes Magnificent ending of Merleau-Ponty's essay on Husserl ("Le Philosophe et son ombr"). Must translate and medi.. 1964/01/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 67] Caesarius of Arles Epistolae Still on Anselm's Letters-and now too Caesarius of Aries... 1964/01/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 67] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Signes "C'est la ruse majeure du pouvoir de persuader les hommes qu'ils gagnent quand ilperdent" ["The major trick o.. 1964/01/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 68] Karl Jaspers European Spirit "What makes us afraid is our great freedom, in face of the emptiness that has still to be filled." Jaspers. A.. 1964/02/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 538] Bahya ibn Pakuda Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs / transl. André Chouraqui, 1943 "¦ Zwi Werblowsky has sent Bahya Ibn Paquda and a couple of good books by Vajda on medieval Jewish mysticism. .. 1964/02/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 69-70] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Sens et non-sens One of the worst things I have ever done-the absurd enterprise of writing that text for the Vatican Pavilion. .. 1964/02/07 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 71] Jean Paul Sartre Baudelaire I emerge at the end of Sartre's involved meditation on Baudelaire [Eng. trans., 1950], like coming out of dark.. 1964/02/08 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 73] Georges Bernanos Chemin de la croix-des-Ames I have here his Chemin de la croix des ames-written about France in World War II. It is often tedious. Perhaps.. 1964/02/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 74] Simone Beauvoire, de Ethics of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir has this to say, which corrects so many of the cliches about existentialism: "It is not tru.. 1964/02/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 76] Simone Beauvoire, de Ethics of Ambiguity An honest statement. "No action can be generated for man without its being immediately generated against men. .. 1964/02/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 47] Walker Percy Moviegoer Have you read a book by a man called Walker Percy, called The Movie Goer? I don't read enough novels to judge,.. 1964/02/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 76] Ammonas Ammonii Eremitae Epistolae One of the great discoveries and graces of this year has been Abbot Ammonas. A magnificent primitive spiritual.. 1964/02/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 76] Anselmus of Canterbury Opera Omnia / ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt o.s.b. St. Anselm, to a monk-to meditate on death and then: "Ab inceptis ergo nulla lassitudine deficias, sed potius .. 1964/02/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 76-77] Anselmus of Canterbury Opera Omnia / ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt o.s.b. "Adeo namque vilis mens mea quasi quadam naturali arctatur angustia bonaeque voluntatis languet imbecilitate, .. 1964/02/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 365] Ammonas Ammonii Eremitae Epistolae Just a brief letter to thank you for the big book Crucible of Love. I have not got into it because I am swampe.. 1964/02/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 365] Edward Schillebeeckx o.p. Christ, the Sacrament of the Encounter with God. Just a brief letter to thank you for the big book Crucible of Love. I have not got into it because I am swampe.. 1964/02/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 77] Ammonas Ammonii Eremitae Epistolae "Ut apud te mens nostra tuo depiderisfuequat quae si carnis maceratione cangiat." [Merton's loose translation.. 1964/02/22 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 80] Joseph Lortz Reformation: A Problem For Today Is [Joseph] Lortz too severe on Erasmus? Reading him after dinner today I wondered about this. Erasmus was "ha.. 1964/02/23 [Ltrs: HGL p. 80-81] Karl Rahner Christian Commitment: Essays in Pastoral Theology Have been reading and reviewing Rahner's latest book and agree with him about what he calls the diaspora situa.. 1964/02/27 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 239] Victor Hammer Concern for the Art of Civilized Man I liked Victor's book [Concern for the Art of Civilized Man] very much and of course I agree with him. Yet at .. 1964/03/03 [Ltrs: CforT p. 104] François de Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon Fenelon: Letters of Love and Counsel / Merton wrote introduction Your letter reached me back in January and since then I have heard you are with us again. It is good to have y.. 1964/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 142-43] Rolf Hochhuth Deputy / Translation from the German Der Stellvertreter A letter from the new Abbot General [Dom Ignace Gillet] came in concerning the articles on peace in Seeds of D.. 1964/03/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 90] Anselmus of Canterbury Opera Omnia / ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt o.s.b. I finished the letters of St. Anselm this morning (volumes of Schmitt to go back to West Baden)... 1964/03/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 90] Albert Camus Discours de Suède I read Camus' Discours de Suede in the University of Louisville library. Fed up with Louisville. Wish I did no.. 1964/03/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 90] C.H. Talbot Life of Christina of Markyate, a Twelfth Century Recluse Am reading the life of Christina of Markyate (recluse near St. Albans in the twelfth century) and find it marv.. 1964/03/15 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 90-91] François Biot Rise of Protestant Monasticism Two dogs yesterday worrying a dead woodchuck in the fields, disturbed me when I was writing a review (book on .. 1964/03/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 496-97] Karl Rahner Christian Commitment: Essays in Pastoral Theology I do not know whether you read English but I thought you might be interested in an article which took, as its .. 1964/03/19 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 91] Heinrich Schlier Eleutheros I am beginning to be glad I learned (barely) to read German in school, and regret that I have let it go for so.. 1964/03/20 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 240] Henry Miller Stand Still like the Hummingbird Many thanks for Miller's Hummingbird which reached me and which I have begun. As usual, I am completely in agr.. 1964/03/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 92] Heinrich Schlier Eleutheros Today I finished after several days of continuous work, Schlier's splendid article "Eleutheria" in Kittel. Am.. 1964/03/24 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 92] Piotr Rawicz Blood from the Sky The frightful novel of Piotr Rawicz. Blood from the Sky is a true descent into hell, so much so that it seems .. 1964/04/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 248] Konstantin Paustovsky Story of a Life Time for a class, so I must stop. Later I will write more. There have been a lot of interesting books around, .. 1964/04/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 94] Henry Robert McAdoo Structure of Caroline Moral Theology Have borrowed [Henry Robert] McAdoo on Caroline Moral Theology [The Structure of Caroline Moral Theology, 1949.. 1964/04/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 94] Konstantin Paustovsky Story of a Life I have been reading [Konstantin] Paustovsky with pleasure [The Story of a Life, 1963]. It is a great book with.. 1964/04/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 95] Henri Perrin Priest and Worker: The Autobiography of Henri Perrin This would be the fiftieth birthday of the Worker Priest Henri Perrin if he were alive. The publishers have se.. 1964/04/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 96] Paul Nizan Aden Arabie Note exactly the same torment of conscience in Sartre's preface to Aden Arabie. A long querulous self-examinat.. 1964/04/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 105] Piotr Rawicz Blood from the Sky That [Piotr] Rawicz [Blood from the Sky]. It is magnificently horrible, and I am terribly impressed by it. The.. 1964/04/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 97] Vasilii Rozanov Face sombre du Christ Reading [Vasilii] Rozanov-a new selection has come out in French. He is an important and dire voice, shocking .. 1964/04/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 105] Wlodzimierz Odojewski Dying Day Now as to the books you have sent. [Wlodzimierz] Odojewski's Dying Day is a fascinating and sometimes beautifu.. 1964/04/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 97-98] Vasilii Rozanov Face sombre du Christ Deeply impressed by Rozanov in the heat behind the woodshed. A magnificent piece of writing about [Mariano Car.. 1964/04/25 [Ltrs: HGL p. 26] Charles James Stranks Anglican Devotion Meanwhile I have been getting on with other Anglican reading. Thornton on English Spirituality was of course a.. 1964/04/25 [Ltrs: HGL p. 26] E.L. Mascall (ed.) Blessed Virgin Mary: Essays by Anglicans / co-editor: H.S. Box Have I yet thanked you for the remarkable little book of essays on the Blessed Virgin [The Blessed Virgin Mary.. 1964/04/25 [Ltrs: HGL p. 26] Henry Robert McAdoo Structure of Caroline Moral Theology Meanwhile I have been getting on with other Anglican reading. Thornton on English Spirituality was of course a.. 1964/04/25 [Ltrs: HGL p. 26] Martin Thornton English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology according to the English Pastoral Tradition Meanwhile I have been getting on with other Anglican reading. Thornton on English Spirituality was of course a.. 1964/05/14 [Ltrs: HGL p. 167] William Du Bay Human Church Thanks for your book which, it seems to me, does not need to be safely publishable, only to be used. It can be.. 1964/05/16 [Honorable p. 141] Ida Friederike Görres Broken Lights: Diaries and Letters of Ida Görres 1951-1959 Thanks for your kind letter. I did enjoy Ida Goerres' diaries very much indeed and got a good letter from her... 1964/05/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 104-05] Plato Gorgias Yesterday, on the Vigil, a group of the Hibakusha [Note 29: Survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.. 1964/05/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 366] Nora Kershaw Chadwick Age of the Saints in the Early Celtic Church The book I have on my mind and like very much is Nora Chadwick's lectures on the Celtic Church. This is really.. 1964/05/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 366] Sergius Bolshakoff Russian Mystics I have been, I repeat, foolishly and perhaps scandalously busy with a lot of absurd things, not the least of w.. 1964/05/24 [Ltrs: CforT p. 44-45] Jacques Maritain Moral Philosophy It was very good of you to ask Scribner's to send me your great newly translated book on Moral Philosophy. Act.. 1964/05/24 [Ltrs: CforT p. 45] Louis Massignon Opera Minora I have also been reading the big volumes of Louis Massignon's Opera Minora, so much more "majora" than most o.. 1964/05/26 [Ltrs: SofC p. 217] Louis Gougaud Celtic Christianity I have begun some work on medieval recluses, and am of course very interested in finding out more about the Ir.. 1964/05/26 [Ltrs: SofC p. 217] Louis Gougaud Ermites et Reclus I have begun some work on medieval recluses, and am of course very interested in finding out more about the Ir.. 1964/05/26 [Ltrs: SofC p. 217] Nora Kershaw Chadwick Age of the Saints in the Early Celtic Church Having just read, and greatly enjoyed, your book The Age of Saints in the EarlyCeltic Church, I am emboldened .. 1964/05/26 [Ltrs: SofC p. 217] Nora Kershaw Chadwick Poetry and Letters in early Christian Gaul Having just read, and greatly enjoyed, your book The Age of Saints in the EarlyCeltic Church, I am emboldened .. 1964/05/29 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 107] Hugo M. Enomiya Lasalle Zen, Weg zu Erleuchtung Am reading [R. M.] Enomiya Lasalle, in German, on Zen, and like it [Zen, Weg zur Erleuchtung, 1960]. Fascinati.. 1964/05/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 440] William Johnston S.J. Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing Thanks for your letter of the 13th. Your project on The Cloud and Zen sounds interesting, and so, though I hav.. 1964/06/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 108] Emmy Arnold Torches Together: The beginning and Early Years of the Bruderhof Communities Reading the little book on Eberhard Arnold on the Bruderhof [Emmy Arnold, Torches Together: The Beginning and .. 1964/06/11 [Ltrs: HGL p. 569] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Zen and Japanese Buddhism Two packages of books have arrived and I am most grateful to you for them and for the kind inscriptions. I hav.. 1964/06/16 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 114]   Teaching of Maelruain Read the Teaching of Maelruain (Rule of Tallaght) and some Irish poems... 1964/06/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 117] Auguste Jundt Amis de Dieu au quatorzième siècle Coming home. Taking off over the Atlantic, clouds over New Jersey, read a bit of [Auguste] Jundt on Les Amis d.. 1964/06/22 [Ltrs: CforT p. 279] Henry Miller Stand Still like the Hummingbird I cannot let your hummingbird [Stand Still like the Hummingbird] get away without a resounding shout of approv.. 1964/06/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 121] David L. Edwards "Honest to God" Debate: Some Reactions to the Book Honest to God First real interest in the "Honest to God" question.[Note 1: The "question" was prompted by the publication .. 1964/06/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 121] John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas) Robinson Honest to God First real interest in the "Honest to God" question.[Note 1: The "question" was prompted by the publication .. 1964/06/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 121] Kenneth H. Jackson Studies in Early Celtic Nature Poetry Blazing hot, stuffy air, barely moved by a little breeze here in the woodshed. What a day it is going to be! E.. 1964/06/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 121] Auguste Jundt Amis de Dieu au quatorzième siècle I finished the old Jundt book on Les Amis de Dieu which I borrowed from the Columbia Library. (Will not forget.. 1964/06/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 121] Rabindranath Tagore One Hundred Poems of Kabir / translated by Evelyn Underhill I finished the old Jundt book on Les Amis de Dieu which I borrowed from the Columbia Library. (Will not forget.. 1964/06/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 59] Louis Massignon Opera Minora You probably have received the wonderful new edition of Louis Massignon's Opera Minora. Excellent. I will see .. 1964/06/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 59] Martin Lings Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy You probably have received the wonderful new edition of Louis Massignon's Opera Minora. Excellent. I will see .. 1964/06/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 122] Hans Küng Council, Reform and Reunion Bob Giroux sent M. Serafian's The Pilgrim. I have read about twenty-five pages of it and find it great. So muc.. 1964/06/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 122] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin Bob Giroux sent M. Serafian's The Pilgrim. I have read about twenty-five pages of it and find it great. So muc.. 1964/06/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 122] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin How badly we need a real spirit of liberty in the Church, it is vitally necessary and the whole Church depends.. 1964/06/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 82] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin I just finished The Pilgrim by Serafian, on the Council. It is really a smasher, much better than the gossip c.. 1964/07/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 218] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin One book you must read if you have not already is The Pilgrim by Serafian, about Pope Paul and the Council. Th.. 1964/07/01 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 325] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin First of all, I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on [Michael] Serafian and find.. 1964/07/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 218] Rolf Hochhuth Deputy / Translation from the German Der Stellvertreter One book you must read if you have not already is The Pilgrim by Serafian, about Pope Paul and the Council. Th.. 1964/07/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 652] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin I am very much tempted to write a parallel between The Deputy and the new Serafian book, The Pilgrim. Starting.. 1964/07/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 652] Rolf Hochhuth Deputy / Translation from the German Der Stellvertreter I am very much tempted to write a parallel between The Deputy and the new Serafian book, The Pilgrim. Starting.. 1964/07/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 220] Hutterian Brethren (ed.) Children in Community A special word for the beautiful book Children in Community. This is a very special success, with all the mode.. 1964/07/08 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 124] Alan Orr Anderson Adamnan's Life of Columba / and Marjory Ogilvie Anderson, editors and translators I am reading Adamnan's Life of Columba [1962], one of the great Vitae. Full of a very special character and sp.. 1964/07/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 124] Rafael Squirru Challenge of the New Man: A Cultural Approach to the Latin American Scene Rafael Squirru's "New Man" pamphlet is very provocative. How much this is needed. The little that is publishe.. 1964/07/12 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 126] Alan Orr Anderson Adamnan's Life of Columba / and Marjory Ogilvie Anderson, editors and translators Deeply moved by Adamnan's extraordinary life of St. Columba. A poetic work, full of powerful symbols, indescri.. 1964/07/12 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 249] John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas) Robinson Honest to God Honest to God is causing a bit of a stir in Protestant circles. He [John A. T. Robinson] gives the impression .. 1964/07/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 146] Rafael Squirru Challenge of the New Man: A Cultural Approach to the Latin American Scene It is a long time since I have written and I do not remember whether I answered yours of May 16th. Perhaps not.. 1964/07/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 232] Rafael Squirru Challenge of the New Man: A Cultural Approach to the Latin American Scene Many thanks for your little book on the "New Man." I have read it carefully and with pleasure and want to con.. 1964/07/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 127] Edward Deming Andrews Shaker furniture : the craftsmanship of an American communal sect / by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews ; photos by William F. Winter Must write the preface to E[dward] D[eming] Andrews' new edition of Shaker Furniture. But first a short articl.. 1964/07/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 127] Michael Serafian Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin Heschel is convinced that Serafian's Pilgrim is perfectly right. We both look at this book in the same way, as.. 1964/07/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 128]   Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis The Navigatio S. Brendani came yesterday from Boston College. I began it this morning, studying it as a Tract .. 1964/07/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 128] Edward Deming Andrews Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture Yesterday, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Carmel in our Order, I wrote that Shaker preface ["Religion in Wo.. 1964/07/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 128] Jorge Carrera Andrade Interpretacion de Ruben Darío Read an excellent piece by [Jorge] Carrera Andrade on Ruben Darío. Important, a key man for the "consciencia a.. 1964/07/20 [Ltrs: HGL p. 40] Edward Deming Andrews Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture You are perhaps wondering what has become of the preface I was asked by him to write for Religion in Wood. I h.. 1964/07/20 [Ltrs: HGL p. 170] Heinrich Dumoulin S.J. history of Zen Buddhism / Heinrich Dumoulin ; transl. from the German by Paul Peachey It is a great pleasure to receive your letter and to be in contact with you. Needless to say, it makes me happ.. 1964/07/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 130]   Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis Finished first reading of the Navigatio Brendani this morning. Interesting monastic vocabulary. The geography-.. 1964/07/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 129] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison I sent the article on "Honest to God" to the Commonweal yesterday. Really Bonhoeffer is far deeper than Robin.. 1964/07/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 130] Graham Greene Burnt-Out Case Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case-takes this up a bit savagely and very well. The complete burning out of Chris.. 1964/07/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 129] John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas) Robinson Honest to God I sent the article on "Honest to God" to the Commonweal yesterday. Really Bonhoeffer is far deeper than Robin.. 1964/07/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 222] Dame Margaret Gascoigne Devotions Today two books arrived, beautifully bound: the Spiritual Anker and the Treatise on Discretion. Thanks very mu.. 1964/07/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 130] Graham Greene Burnt-Out Case The Burnt-Out Case is not much of a book, really. It is competent, but is itself a bit burned out and silly. Y.. 1964/07/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 432] Abraham Joshua Heschel Earth Is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe Your books and offprints arrived promptly. I am at the moment most involved in The Earth Is the Lord's and The.. 1964/07/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 432] Abraham Joshua Heschel Sabbath Your books and offprints arrived promptly. I am at the moment most involved in The Earth Is the Lord's and The.. 1964/07/28 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 131]   Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis Interesting background to the Navigatio Brendani-its connection with the Lotharingian monastic reform in the t.. 1964/08/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 132] William Stringfellow My People Is the Enemy: An Autobiographical Polemic I finished [William] Stringfellow's book on Harlem [My People Is the Enemy: An Autobiographical Polemic, 1964].. 1964/08/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 132] Robert Ardrey African genesis : a personal investigation into the animal origins and nature of man / Robert Ardrey ; drawings by Berdine Ardrey Someone has sent a book, African Genesis [by Robert Ardrey]. I had heard of discoveries of Leakey at Olduvai, .. 1964/08/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 48] Edward Deming Andrews Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture Thanks for the word in the silence. I am sorry only of the occasion for it. I had as a matter of fact heard ve.. 1964/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 134] Albert Camus peste Where can I ever read all the novels one is supposed to read? I am, however, finishing La Peste (Camus). It is.. 1964/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 134] Albert Camus peste La Peste-understandable in the light of Bonhoeffer's admirable prison letters. In connection with Camus and pe.. 1964/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 134] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison La Peste-understandable in the light of Bonhoeffer's admirable prison letters. In connection with Camus and pe.. 1964/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 133] Herman Melville Moby Dick; of the Whale The other day in Louisville picked up [W. H.] Auden's "Enchafed Flood" at the library. It is good background .. 1964/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 134] Raïssa Maritain Chagall: Ou l'orage enchantre Raïssa Maritain in her book on [Marc] Chagall [Chagall: Où l'orage enchante, 1948] speaks of the light of New .. 1964/08/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 133] Wystab Hugh Auden Enchafèd Flood: or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea The other day in Louisville picked up [W. H.] Auden's "Enchafed Flood" at the library. It is good background .. 1964/08/12 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 135] David Knowles o.s.b. Historian and Character and other Essays Last night I dreamed that Dom James suddenly announced that we would have funeral and quasi-military "parades .. 1964/08/20 [Ltrs: SofC p. 228] Nicholas of Narbonne Ignea Sagitta (The Flaming Arrow) I love the Carmelite spirit, I mean especially that of the first Carmelites and the Ignea sagitta (a rare but .. 1964/08/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 138] George Scott-Moncrieff Scottish Islands Another nice letter from Nora K. Chadwick yesterday. Her sister was a Carmelite at Waterbeach for sixty years .. 1964/08/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 138] James Midley Clark Abbey of St. Gall as a Centre of Literature and Art Another nice letter from Nora K. Chadwick yesterday. Her sister was a Carmelite at Waterbeach for sixty years .. 1964/08/28 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 116] Hans Urs von Balthasar Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. Hans Urs von Balthasar has sent me his Herrlichkeit [Lordship] and it is magnificent. I am very glad to have i.. 1964/08/31 [Ltrs: CforT p. 174] Edward Deming Andrews Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture It has been a hot and busy summer, in which I have tried to get some work done. Possibly I have undertaken too.. 1964/09/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 140] Hans Urs von Balthasar Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. This morning I began [Hans Urs] Von Balthasar's Herrlichkeit-a long book to try to read in German, but the fir.. 1964/09/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 141-42] Robert Ardrey African genesis : a personal investigation into the animal origins and nature of man / Robert Ardrey ; drawings by Berdine Ardrey I was going to burn some wastepaper, but it is too dry a day. Sent out to the girl [Donna Mae Miller] at the U.. 1964/09/27 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 149] Hans Urs von Balthasar Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. Slowly plugging at Von Balthasar's Herrlichkeit. Certainly this one central thing: all theology is a scientifi.. 1964/09/27 [Ltrs: SofC p. 241] Hans Urs von Balthasar Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. The wonderful package of books has arrived, and I am reading the first volume of Herrlichkeit, not without a l.. 1964/10/02 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 248] James Purdy Cabot Wright Begins The poem ["And the Children of Birmingham"] in the New York Review [Of Books] got there via Bob Giroux, it was.. 1964/10/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 155-56] Hans Urs von Balthasar Word and Revelation. Essays in Theology I Von Balthasar's Word and Revelation excellent. One fine passage where he says substantially what Juliana of No.. 1964/10/22 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 121] Jean Leclercq Otia Monastica: etudes sur le vocabulaire de la contemplation au Moyen A¢ge Your Otia [Leclercq's new book, "Leisure"] came yersterday and I began it immediately. It is just what I am lo.. 1964/10/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 247] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Otia Monastica: Etudes sur le vocabulaire de la contemplation au Moyen âge Your Otia came yesterday and I began it immediately. It is just what I am looking for. A splendid book... 1964/10/26 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 334] Fernand Pouillon Pierres sauvages Sorry to be a bit slow reporting on "Les Pierres Sauvages."... I think Pouillon's book is a good one and emine.. 1964/10/29 [Ltrs: SofC p. 248] Hans Urs von Balthasar Word and Revelation. Essays in Theology I Yes, there is work being done on a monastic ratio studiorum [program of studies]. There have been copies of do.. 1964/10/29 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 159] Jacques Ellul technological society / Jacques Ellul ; transl. from the French by John Wilkinson ; with an introd. by Robert K. Merton Ferry sent Jacques Ellul's book on Technology [The Technological Society, 1964], just out.... Reading Jacques .. 1964/10/31 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 160] Hans Urs von Balthasar Skitzen zur Theologie An impressive passage in Balthasar's "Verbum Caro"-a deep and poignant essay. I will use part of it perhaps i.. 1964/11/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 161] Jacques Ellul technological society / Jacques Ellul ; transl. from the French by John Wilkinson ; with an introd. by Robert K. Merton I am going on with Ellul's prophetic and I think very sound diagnosis of the Technological Society. How few pe.. 1964/11/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 163] Eugène Ionesco Bold Soprano Yesterday I was reading [Eugene] lonesco's Bald Soprano and laughing myself silly behind the forage boxes pack.. 1964/11/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 163] Jacques Ellul technological society / Jacques Ellul ; transl. from the French by John Wilkinson ; with an introd. by Robert K. Merton I think Ellul is perhaps too pessimistic. Not unreasonably so-but one must still have hope. Perhaps the self-d.. 1964/11/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 164] Gordon Zahn In Solitary Witness. The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter And it was certainly profitable to read Balthasar and Gordon Zahn's little book on the objector [Franz] Jägers.. 1964/11/11 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 201] Eugène Ionesco Poesie / ed. Renan Many thanks for all the Ionesco. I am sending back Renan today. There are very interesting things in it but I .. 1964/11/12 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 165] Gordon Zahn In Solitary Witness. The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter Reading proofs of Zahn's book on the Austrian peasant Jägerstätter, executed by Hitler for conscientious objec.. 1964/11/16 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 165-66] Robert Lowell For the Union Dead Brother Antoninus [William Everson], tall, bowed, gentle, benevolent, given to quiet laughter was here from Fr.. 1964/11/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 166-67] Louis Massignon Opera Minora Massignon and Foucauld"”both converted to Christianity by the witness of Islam to the one living God. Someone .. 1964/11/20 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 107] Gordon Zahn In Solitary Witness. The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter Thanks for your letters, etc., and for the copies of Peace News. I certainly understand your difficulties abou.. 1964/11/22 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 168-69] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Otia Monastica: Etudes sur le vocabulaire de la contemplation au Moyen âge Adam the Carthusian (Scotus) in a fine text on quies claustralis [quiet of the cloister] (published by Leclerc.. 1964/12/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 172] Martin E. Marty Varieties of Unbelieve Finished the Martin Marty book Varieties of Unbelief I am supposed to be reviewing for the Commonweal... 1964/12/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 173] Eugène Ionesco Notes et contre-notes Hurray for Ionesco! He has some very good ideas, and here is one of them (against those obsessed with ideologi.. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 175] Eugène Ionesco Future Is in Eggs So many good books around and in the woodshed after dinner. Pasternak once. Lately Ellul, and Felix Green's Cu.. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 175] Eugène Ionescu Rhinoceros So many good books around and in the woodshed after dinner. Pasternak once. Lately Ellul, and Felix Green's Cu.. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 175] Felix Greene Curtain of Ignorance So many good books around and in the woodshed after dinner. Pasternak once. Lately Ellul, and Felix Green's Cu.. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 175] Kenneth H. Jackson Studies in Early Celtic Nature Poetry So many good books around and in the woodshed after dinner. Pasternak once. Lately Ellul, and Felix Green's Cu.. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 175] William Golding Lord of the Fliles I had a somewhat fearsome night after reading The Lord of the Flies. This a hangover from my cenobitic after-d.. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 174] Wu Wei Wei All else is bondage : "non-volitional living" / by Wei Wu Wei. pseud. of Terrence Gray Meanwhile a little book [All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living, 1964] by Terence Gray (Wei Wu Wei) is in .. 1964/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 175] Wystab Hugh Auden Enchafèd Flood: or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea So many good books around and in the woodshed after dinner. Pasternak once. Lately Ellul, and Felix Green's Cu.. 1964/12/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 176] Eugène Ionesco Notes et contre-notes Thank God I have been purged of Sartre by Ionesco. I don't think Ionesco is a great artist but he is healthy a.. 1964/12/08 [Ltrs: SofC p. 254]   Cloud of Unknowing "¦ In such solitude as I have now I have been renewing my contact with Lancelot Andrewes, not as a steady diet.. 1964/12/08 [Ltrs: SofC p. 254] Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love "¦ In such solitude as I have now I have been renewing my contact with Lancelot Andrewes, not as a steady diet.. 1964/12/08 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 177] Stephane Lupasco Logique et contradiction I am reading [Stephane] Lupano in the hermitage [Logique et contradiction, 1947]... 1964/12/09 [Ltrs: HGL p. 60] Jacob Boehme Confessions of Jacob Boehme Recently I sent you two small books on Boehme, his confessions and another. I like his confessions. Unfortunat.. 1964/12/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 178-79] Daniel Callahan Honesty in the Church Scribners sent Daniel Callahan's book Honesty in the Church in proof. I will not make a statement on it, as it.. 1964/12/10 [Ltrs: HGL p. 467-68] Jacques Ellul technological society / Jacques Ellul ; transl. from the French by John Wilkinson ; with an introd. by Robert K. Merton The old structures, manifestly inadequate in some ways, are being taken away, and instead of being spiritually.. 1964/12/12 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 167-68] Wu Wei Wei All else is bondage : "non-volitional living" / by Wei Wu Wei. pseud. of Terrence Gray It was very kind of you to think of sending me the little book of Terrence Gray. It is most valuable and full .. 1964/12/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 250] Daniel Callahan Honesty in the Church You mention Daniel Callahan. I have just got through reading proofs of his book, Honesty in the Church. You mu.. 1964/12/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 654] Gordon Zahn In Solitary Witness. The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter Peace News asked me to review your book on Jagerstaetter [In Solitary Witness], and I did. Here is a copy of t.. 1964/12/17 [Ltrs: SofC p. 255] Origenes Contra Celsum / Translated with an introduction & notes by Henry Chadwick In a recent book of mine I have had occasion to use a couple of quotations from Henry Chadwick's translation o.. 1964/12/19 [Ltrs: CforT p. 83] Czeslaw Milosz Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology Just a word to wish you the blessings of the holy season and to say I have recently written to Anne Freedgood .. 1964/12/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 49] Mark Van Doren Mayfield Deer Which reminds me that the Narrative Poems came, and I like best The Mayfield Deer always. Your two books toget.. 1964/12/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 49] Mark Van Doren Narrative Poems: Jonathan Gentry Which reminds me that the Narrative Poems came, and I like best The Mayfield Deer always. Your two books toget.. 1964/12/20 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 181] Eugène Ionesco Pieton de l'air Am working on Philoxenus and Ephrem. Yesterday I finished Ionesco's Le Pieton de l'air which is extraordinaril.. 1964/12/22 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 181] Vladimir Lossky Vision de Dieu Am finally reading Vladimir Lossky's fine book La Vision de Dieu which reminds me that the best thing that has.. 1964/12/26 [Ltrs: SofC p. 257] Peter F. Anson Call of the Desert I think that even if a desert is formed (which is unlikely) without this basis of intelligent and open communi.. 1964/12/27 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 98] Camille Drevet Par les routes humaines I must thank you for your new book, Par les routes humaines, which reached me some time ago. I have not yet fi.. 1964/12/28 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 109] Jacques Ellul technological society / Jacques Ellul ; transl. from the French by John Wilkinson ; with an introd. by Robert K. Merton In November a group of peace workers, including A. J. Muste, who is the dean of American pacifists, and some f.. 1964/12/29 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 184] Karlfried Dürckheim, von Japanese Cult of Tranquility I finished Von Durkheim, The Japanese Cult of Tranquillity. The best and most revealing part is the appendix f.. 1965/01/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 190] Clayton Eshelman Residence on Earth / translation of Neruda, Pablo. Residencia en la Tierra Clayton Eshelman sent his translation of Residencia en la Tierra [by Pablo Neruda]. Some of it is very success.. 1965/01/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 190] Karl Jaspers Nietsche and Christianity Jaspers says (and this is analogous to a basic principle in Jacques Ellul also): "Once I envision world histor.. 1965/01/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 192] Paul Goodman Growing up Absurd In the monastery after dinner I played Brother Antoninus' record "The Tongs of Jeopardy" to the novices and s.. 1965/01/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 193] Philip Berrigan No More Strangers Last week I wrote the preface for Phil Berrigan's book [No More Strangers, 1965] in which there are many fine .. 1965/01/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 192] William K. Everson o.p. Tongs of Jeopardy / pseudonym: brother Antoninus In the monastery after dinner I played Brother Antoninus' record "The Tongs of Jeopardy" to the novices and s.. 1965/01/22 [Ltrs: CforT p. 256] Clayton Eshelman Residence on Earth / translation of Neruda, Pablo. Residencia en la Tierra Glad for Residence on Earth [Eshleman's translation of Neruda's poems]: your translation made me look more clo.. 1965/01/22 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 194] Vintila Horia septième lettre. Le roman de Platon Vintila Horia sent me his novel about Plato and I find it extraordinarily beautiful, a sustained tone of wisdo.. 1965/01/31 [Ltrs: HGL p. 626] John (Jingxiong) Wu Golden Age of Zen Look how much time has passed since I received your letter and the chapter on Hui Neng [in Dr. Wu's book The G.. 1965/02/09 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 202] Quintus Horace Epodes I must admit I am much moved by Horace-as for instance a quote from the Second Epode which I ran across by cha.. 1965/02/14 [Ltrs: SofC p. 265-66] Rene Brunel monachisme errant dans Vlslam, Sîdi Heddi et les Heddâwa It is good to know that the "chroniques" on Islam and so on will get printed, even though not monastic. I hav.. 1965/02/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 168] William Du Bay Human Church The book idea sounds fine. I am glad you are writing on war and peace. With the present mess in Vietnam the su.. 1965/02/29 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 225] Eudo C. Mason Rilke, Europe and the English-Speaking World Today I am returning Peters, Rilke, Masks and the Man. As I mentioned in my card I would like if possible toe .. 1965/02/29 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 225] H.F. Peters Rainer Maria Rilke, Masks and the Man Today I am returning Peters, Rilke, Masks and the Man. As I mentioned in my card I would like if possible toe .. 1965/03/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 212] Jacques Cabaud Simone Weil: A Fellowship in Love I am reading a good biography of Simone Weil, which I have to review for Peace News. [Note 15: Merton reviewe.. 1965/03/03 [Honorable p. 144] Lional Mordecai Trilling Broken Mirror: A Collection of Writings from Contemporary Poland / edited by Pawel Mayewski Your book THE BROKEN MIRROR is one that I have read with interest, and in various ways I have tried to keep up.. 1965/03/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 214] Kitaro Nishida study of good / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. by V.H. Viglielmo Came briefly up to the hermitage after dinner to sweep, get the water bottle to fill, and also read a few page.. 1965/03/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 214] Kitaro Nishida study of good / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. by V.H. Viglielmo Nishida Kitaro-just what I am looking for. For example I see my objection to the cliche about "meaningful expe.. 1965/03/10 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 212] Johann Peter Hebel Treasure Chest Talking about diversion, I never said how much I liked Hebel's stories. They have a completely wonderful tone .. 1965/03/13 [Ltrs: CforT p. 223] Falleció Roberto Guervara Días móviles First, I will get busy and dig up a "manifesto" for you, as well as the books I promised. You can take anythi.. 1965/03/19 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 262] Julio Cortazar Winners Thanks also for the Cortazar novel, which I think is excellent. I have heard a lot about him. This one sounds .. 1965/03/20 [Ltrs: CforT p. 212] Nicanor Parra Versos de salon Thanks very much for the two books of poems, which you sent me some time ago. You seemed diffident about Verso.. 1965/03/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 221] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello Decided to take some bread with coffee this morning instead of fasting (on coffee only) until dinner. The rye .. 1965/03/31 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 223] Alfonso Cortes Poemas Nuevos A collection of poems [Poemas Nuevos] by Alfonso Cortes came, sent by his sister. It looks very interesting. W.. 1965/03/31 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 223] Kitaro Nishida study of good / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. by V.H. Viglielmo Yesterday morning finished Nishida Kitaro's Study of Good except for the appendix. One of the most remarkably .. 1965/04/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 223] Kitaro Nishida study of good / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. by V.H. Viglielmo This morning I finished the appendix which gives some idea of the full scope of Nishida's thought. It is most .. 1965/04/16 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 229-30] Lord Walter Northbourne Religion in the modern world Marco Pallis had Lord [Walter] Northbourne send me his really excellent book Religion in the Modern World. Amo.. 1965/04/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 231] Lord Walter Northbourne Religion in the modern world The last pages of Northbourne's book are remarkably good, and make clear the confusions that had given me trou.. 1965/04/18 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 312-13] Lord Walter Northbourne Religion in the modern world I have just finished reading your book Religion in the Modern World. Since I did not want to send you a mere f.. 1965/04/19 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 232] Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus De Resurectione Carnis "Fiducia Christianorum resurrectio mortuorum-illam credentes hoc sumus." ["The confidence of Christians is in.. 1965/04/20 [Ltrs: CforT p. 177] Alfonso Cortes Rimas universales I am very happy to have in hand your new book, Las rimas universales , in which I read with admiration of new .. 1965/04/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 233] Flannnery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge Then yesterday Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965] arrived and I am alrea.. 1965/04/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 453] Frithjof Schuon Comprendre l'Islam Your new book reached me this morning, and I must say it looks extremely interesting. I am not perfectly sure .. 1965/04/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 453] Martin Lings Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions Your new book reached me this morning, and I must say it looks extremely interesting. I am not perfectly sure .. 1965/04/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 454] Martin Lings Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy On the other hand I was able to give what I felt was a very enthusiastic review to your admirable book on Ahma.. 1965/04/24 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 233] Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus De Resurectione Carnis Tertullian. Certainly I am reading in perfect circumstances (viz., chapter 12 De Resurrectione at the time of .. 1965/04/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 454] Rene Guenon Crisis of the Modern World Meanwhile I am very happy to be in contact with you, as I am with Marco Pallis, whose books have also been a g.. 1965/04/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 233] Flannnery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge I wonder if the singular power of Flannery O'Connor's work, the horror and fascination of it, is not basically.. 1965/04/27 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 235] Jacques Maritain Carnet de notes / Jacques Maritain I received a copy of Jacques Maritain's Notebooks, from Paris, and have already read the interesting (and some.. 1965/04/29 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 341] Flannnery O'Connor Everhthing That Rises Must Converge Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge], which, of course, I have read i.. 1965/04/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 221] Flannnery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge Having just finished Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge], I can easily believe .. 1965/05/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 246] Henri Lubac, De Exegèse medieval: les quatre sens de l'Ecriture Already a most beautiful week of May has gone by. For part of it I was ill again, with the same bug that had m.. 1965/05/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 246] Herbert Read Green Child Already a most beautiful week of May has gone by. For part of it I was ill again, with the same bug that had m.. 1965/05/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 246] Martin Lings Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions Already a most beautiful week of May has gone by. For part of it I was ill again, with the same bug that had m.. 1965/05/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 251] Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus De Resurectione Carnis For Meditation-part of the morning on the Sapiential books (Vulgate) and in the evening some of the time I spe.. 1965/05/13 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 217] Herbert Giles Confucianism and its Rivals I have very much enjoyed the Tao of Painting [note 191: Mai-mai Sze, The Tao of Painting, 2nd ed. (New York: .. 1965/05/13 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 217] Mai-Mai Sze Tao of Painting I have very much enjoyed the Tao of Painting [note 191: Mai-mai Sze, The Tao of Painting, 2nd ed. (New York: .. 1965/05/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 27] Lancelot Andrewes Preces Privatae I "¦ have been using Andrewes Preces [Privatae] at night in the hermitage... 1965/05/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 251] Henri Lubac, De Exegèse medieval: les quatre sens de l'Ecriture For Meditation-part of the morning on the Sapiential books (Vulgate) and in the evening some of the time I spe.. 1965/05/26 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 168] Kitaro Nishida study of good / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. by V.H. Viglielmo You will certainly enjoy the Nishida book [Kitaro Nishida, A Study of Good]. My review is not yet published, a.. 1965/06/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 207] Angel Martínez Baigorri Sonetos irreparables Your beautiful book reached me, beautiful visually and in its contents. I was most touched by your friendship .. 1965/06/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 253] Mai-Mai Sze Tao of Painting On Friday I went to Lexington for some examinations at the clinic (Dr. Fortune) and was supposed to return tha.. 1965/06/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 253] Samuel Nathaniel Behrman Biography of Joseph Duveen, Baron Duveen, 1869-1939 On Friday I went to Lexington for some examinations at the clinic (Dr. Fortune) and was supposed to return tha.. 1965/06/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 255] Mai-Mai Sze Tao of Painting I take delight in Mai Mai Sze's Tao of Painting, a deep and contemplative book. I am reading it slowly with gr.. 1965/06/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 213] Eugène Ionescu Avenir est dans les oeufs We are in a time of the worst barbarity, much worse than in the time of the fall of the Roman empire. It is su.. 1965/06/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 470] Frithjof Schuon Language of the self / Frithjof Schuon ; transl. by Marco Pallis and Macleod Matheson I have been wanting to tell you how much I have benefited by your translations of Guenon and Schuon. Not only .. 1965/06/17 [Ltrs: HGL p. 470] Rene Guenon Crisis of the Modern World I have been wanting to tell you how much I have benefited by your translations of Guenon and Schuon. Not only .. 1965/06/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 338] Denys Rutledge In Search of a Yogi Your long and interesting letter puts me, I am afraid, in a rather delicate position. Having written a preface.. 1965/06/23 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 12] Eric Gill Clothes: An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn by Men and Women I have very much enjoyed The Tao of Painting, which I will send back soon. Duveen is priceless. But I am afrai.. 1965/06/23 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 258] Ernesto Cardenal Oración por Marily Monroe y otros poemas Ernesto Cardenal sent his new booklet of poems ("Oración for Marilyn Monroe," etc.), and they are very fine, .. 1965/06/23 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 12] Mai-Mai Sze Tao of Painting I have very much enjoyed The Tao of Painting, which I will send back soon. Duveen is priceless. But I am afrai.. 1965/06/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 260] Karl Stern Flight from Woman Reading Karl Stern's Flight from Woman. Some fascinating material (loaded word-mater!) especially in the chapt.. 1965/07/03 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 343] Karl Stern Flight from Woman I like Karl Stern's new book [The Flight of Woman] very much indeed. I am finishing it now, and have enjoyed i.. 1965/07/03 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 343] Paul Evdokimov femme et le salut du monde : étude d'anthropologie chrétienne sur les charismes de la femme / Paul Evdokimov I like Karl Stern's new book [The Flight of Woman] very much indeed. I am finishing it now, and have enjoyed i.. 1965/07/07 [Ltrs: SofC p. 287] Karl Stern Flight from Woman Have you read Karl Stern's new book, The Flight from Woman? I think it is on the whole very good, and I think .. 1965/07/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 267-68] Paris Leary Controversy of Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poets Yesterday the new anthology by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly arrived. Controversy of Poets. Ambiguous title, go.. 1965/07/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 148] Karl Stern Flight from Woman I was very glad indeed to get your letter. It came at a good time, I had just been reading and enjoying Karl S.. 1965/07/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 270-71] Jacques Ellul Propagandes There is no question of the deep inauthenticity of the common life in this monastery, in most religious commun.. 1965/07/17 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 271] John Maccquarrie Extentialist Theology: a Comparison of Heidegger and Bultmann "An important part of the witness of the Church, or in other words an important way of proclaiming the Word mu.. 1965/07/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 275] Søren Kierkegaard Present Age Reading [Søren] Kierkegaard-selections from The Present Age. Very fine and completely prophetic. One of the be.. 1965/07/29 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 345-46] Tom Wolfe Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby And now, finally, Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Stremaline Baby. It is a magnificent book. Wh.. 1965/08/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 277] Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris Returned to hermitage today after a week in St. Anthony's hospital. In a way it was trying, at least a test of.. 1965/08/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 276-77] Tom Wolfe Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Returned to hermitage today after a week in St. Anthony's hospital. In a way it was trying, at least a test of.. 1965/08/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 278] Anselmus of Canterbury De Casu Diaboli (I am frightened by the awful clarity of Anselm's argument in De Casu Diaboli. A view of liberty that is essen.. 1965/08/10 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 278] John (Jingxiong) Wu Golden Age of Zen In John Wu's Zen manuscript-this beautiful poem of Tung Shan.For whom have you stripped yourself of your gorg.. 1965/08/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 278-79] Catherine of Siena Dialogo breve sulla consumata perfezione / Saint Catherine of Siena ; ed. di Aldo Buonomini "When you are serving others you are apt to be a hypocrite; but when you are serving heaven it is difficult to.. 1965/08/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 279] Philip Kapleau three pillars of Zen : teaching, practice, and enlightenment / comp. & ed., with transl., introd. & notes, by Philip Kapleau ; forew. by Huston Smith Yesterday, Father [William] Johnston, a Jesuit from Sophia University, Tokyo, was here, talking of Zen, Father.. 1965/08/17 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 251] John Heureux Quick as Dandelions Many thanks for your note from Georgetown. I am glad you had such a good time. You deserve it, and I am sure i.. 1965/08/21 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 282-83] Gustaf Wingren Man and the Incarnation: A Study in the Biblical Theology of Irenaeus The Chapter yesterday was not so bad. The day was a joyful one. A lot of gladness in the community, and most p.. 1965/08/26 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 285] Irenaeus of Lyon Adversus Haereses Superb passage from Irenaeus (Adversus Haereses, IV XXXIX.2. col. 1110):"Si ergo opera Dei es.... etc. " ["If.. 1965/08/28 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 286-87] Gustaf Wingren Man and the Incarnation: A Study in the Biblical Theology of Irenaeus Today-finished Wingren's book on Irenaeus, which Brother Cuthbert had passed on to me. Some misleading theolog.. 1965/08/31 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 147] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets I enclose a long article on existentialism which I did for The Critic ["The Other Side of Despair: Notes on Ch.. 1965/0806 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 277] Friedrich Nietzsche Birth of Tragidy from the Spirit of Music Returned to hermitage today after a week in St. Anthony's hospital. In a way it was trying, at least a test of.. 1965/09/05 [Ltrs: CforT p. 45] Jacques Maritain Carnet de notes / Jacques Maritain It has been a terribly long time since I have written to you or heard from you, and I am not sure whether or n.. 1965/09/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 291] Beryl Smalley Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages I am reading Beryl Smalley's Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. A very delightful book-in which for the fi.. 1965/09/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 294] Marguerite Porete Mirror of Simple Souls "They have a good foundation," saith Love, "and high edification that resteth them of the things. Such creatu.. 1965/09/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 299] Jacques Maritain Carnet de notes / Jacques Maritain Last evening began again reading parts of Maritain's Carnets de notes-good things on the layman and a plea to .. 1965/09/26 [Ltrs: CforT p. 46] Jacques Maritain Carnet de notes / Jacques Maritain I have been reading your Carnets [de notes] "¦ Everything you say is quite true & even prophetic. Our mania fo.. 1965/09/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 300] Michael Harrington Other America: Poverty in the United States The month began in rain and is ending in it-though there were a couple of long dry periods. A fine rainstorm w.. 1965/10/03 [Ltrs: HGL p. 518-19] Philip Kapleau three pillars of Zen : teaching, practice, and enlightenment / comp. & ed., with transl., introd. & notes, by Philip Kapleau ; forew. by Huston Smith I was especially interested in your account of [your friends' involvement in] the session at Pendle Hill. Who .. 1965/10/03 [Ltrs: HGL p. 518] Thomas Trahern Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings Now that I go to answer your letter I find that I have misplaced it, but I think most of the points are in my .. 1965/10/06 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 301] Herbert Eduard Read Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness Picture of Galla Placidia in H[erbert] Read's book [Icon and Idea, 1964]. Byzantine Medallion of her, her son .. 1965/10/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 303] Eric Gill Clothes: An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn by Men and Women Reading Isaac of Stella. Disappointed in Eric Gill's book on clothes [Clothes: An Essay upon the Nature and Si.. 1965/10/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 302] Herbert Eduard Read Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness I finished Read's Icon and Idea-Monday finished [Josef] Pieper In Tune with the World: [A Theory of Festivity,.. 1965/10/13 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 302] Josef Pieper In tune with the world : a theory of festivity / Josef Pieper ; transl. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston I finished Read's Icon and Idea-Monday finished [Josef] Pieper In Tune with the World: [A Theory of Festivity,.. 1965/10/14 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 303] Plato Symposium "When he comes toward the end he will suddenly perceive a beauty of wondrous natur"¦not fair in the likeness o.. 1965/10/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 305] John Joseph Stoudt Sunrise to Eternity: A Study in Jacob Boehme's Life and Thought [Jakob] Boehme-[Rainer Maria] Rilke. A new climate. Two people I have met in passing for years and never reall.. 1965/10/18 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 305] Rainer Maria Rilke Das Buch der Bilder So I share some of Rilke's fear and vulnerability, and it is true. "Der Nachbar" is certainly part of my own .. 1965/10/19 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 307] Rainer Maria Rilke Das Buch der Bilder Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr,Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,wird wachen, lese.. 1965/10/30 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 310] John (abbot) of Ford Wulfric of Haselbury Brother Alberic got (rare) copy of [John of] Ford's life of Wulfric of Haselbury [Wulfric of Haselbury, 1933] .. 1965/11/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 373] John (abbot) of Ford Wulfric of Haselbury I am reading the life of an anchorite in Devon, or rather Somerset I think, St. Wulfric of Haselbury. It is wr.. 1965/11/03 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 311] Isaac of Stella Sermones The comet! I heard about it yesterday in the monastery, went out to see it this morning, and went just at the .. 1965/11/04 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 311-12] John (abbot) of Ford Wulfric of Haselbury Turned in Wulfric of Haselbury yesterday. There were fine things in it, and I want pictures of some of it. On .. 1965/11/06 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 270] Charles Reznikoff Testimony: The United States (1985-1915) Thanks for the Reznikoff Testimony[,] an austere and impressive book. I would like to do a statement for [Geor.. 1965/11/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 61] A.J. (Arthur John) Arberry Koran interpreted On the other hand I am quite sure that at least one letter of mine must have gone astray. I am certain that I .. 1965/11/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 61] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu There is great enthusiasm everywhere now over Teilhard de Chardin. I would be interested in your impression of.. 1965/11/11 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 315] Raïssa Maritain Grandes Amities: Souvenirs At supper-read a few pages [in Les Grandes Amities: Souvenirs, reprinted 1965] of Raïssa Maritain on [Ernest] .. 1965/11/12 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 315] Sacheverell Sitwell Monks, Nuns and Monasteries Finished [Sacheverell] Sitwell on Monks, Nuns and Monasteries and wrote a review for the Critic... 1965/11/15 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 316] Rainer Maria Rilke Neue Gedichte I continue with Rilke (and talked to novices of him yesterday)-often I can't stand his mental climate when it .. 1965/11/29 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 319] Pablo Neruda Residence on Earth This morning I really opened the door of the Duino Elegies and walked in (previously I have only peeked in thr.. 1965/11/29 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 319] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender This morning I really opened the door of the Duino Elegies and walked in (previously I have only peeked in thr.. 1965/12/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 319-20] Paul Evdokimov femme et le salut du monde : etude d'anthropologie chretienne sur les charismes de la femme / Paul Evdokimov When I got up it was about thirty on the porch and now at dawn it is down to twenty-one. These are the coldest.. 1965/12/01 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 319-20] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender When I got up it was about thirty on the porch and now at dawn it is down to twenty-one. These are the coldest.. 1965/12/05 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 322] Jacques Ellul Illusion politique Last evening at supper I began [Jacques] Ellul's L'Illusion politique. It is some comfort to find someone who .. 1965/12/12 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 248] Karl Stern Flight from Woman At the moment I am trying not to be an authority on everything, so I am becoming silent on a lot of things I s.. 1965/12/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 41] Reza Arasteh Rumi the Persian: Rebirth in Creativity and Love It is a great pleasure for me to have your book on Rumi. I am reading it with great interest as I like the Suf.. 1965/12/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 178] Alfonso Cortes Coplas del pueblo I am very happy to have your new book of poems [Las coplas del pueblo (1965)], which without doubt will be one.. 1965/12/24 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 111] Gordon Zahn In Solitary Witness. The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter The Council says explicitly that it is good that there be legal provision made for those who object to modern .. 1965/12/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 327] Edwin Arthur Burtt In Search of Philosophic Understanding I made my thanksgiving quietly, said Lauds and had a snack and some wine (the last of what Brother Clement gav.. 1965/12/25 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 327] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender I made my thanksgiving quietly, said Lauds and had a snack and some wine (the last of what Brother Clement gav.. 1965/12/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 41] Reza Arasteh Final Integration in the Adult Personality: A Measure for Peace I am interested in your book [Final Integration in the Adult Personality ], which I am sure will fill a great .. 1966/01/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 3] Edwin Arthur Burtt In Search of Philosophic Understanding Reading E. A. Burtt's book, sent by him from Cornell - and galleys of a good book on the Church trans[lated] f.. 1966/01/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 3] Eudo C. Mason Rilke, Europe and the English-Speaking World Reading E. A. Burtt's book, sent by him from Cornell - and galleys of a good book on the Church trans[lated] f.. 1966/01/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 62] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Hymne de l'univers / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "¦ If you have not sent The Phenomenon of Man, please do not send it as we have copies here. I have not read i.. 1966/01/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 3] Robert Adolfs Grave of God: Has the Church a Future? Reading E. A. Burtt's book, sent by him from Cornell - and galleys of a good book on the Church trans[lated] f.. 1966/01/06 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 5] Kitaro Nishida Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. and introd. by Robert Schinzinger in collaboration with I. Koyama and T. Kojima. Reading the [Robert] Schinzinger book of [Kitaro] Nishida's, [Intelligibility and the] Philosophy of Nothingne.. 1966/01/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 17-18]   Prajna paramita Sutra In the afternoon, musing on the Prajna paramita Sutra, out at the top of the hay field, really saw it (instead.. 1966/01/10 [Ltrs: HGL p. 441] Kitaro Nishida Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. and introd. by Robert Schinzinger in collaboration with I. Koyama and T. Kojima. I was surprised and delighted to get the Shinzinger book on Nishida the other day, and am already well into it.. 1966/01/12 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 6] Kitaro Nishida Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. and introd. by Robert Schinzinger in collaboration with I. Koyama and T. Kojima. Great experience - reading Nishida's The Intelligible World. How like Evagrius, and yet better. Splendid view .. 1966/01/13 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 6] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender Nishida throws much light on Rilke. He makes clear and explicit what Rilke was reaching for in the Duino Elegi.. 1966/01/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 6-7]   Rule for Recluses A Rule for Recluses edited by Olgin in Antonianum came on interlibrary loan from St. Bona's [St. Bonaventure U.. 1966/01/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 167] Esther Cáceres Tiempo y abismo I was very happy to get your advent letter and your book Tiempo y abismo which I enjoyed thoroughly, your prai.. 1966/01/15 [Ltrs: HGL p. 321] Reza Arasteh Rumi the Persian: Rebirth in Creativity and Love I was glad to get your note. You are right, I have not written for a long time, but I think of you and run int.. 1966/01/16 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 7-8] Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus / translated by J.B.L. Leishman Finished Nishida's Intelligible World. As to the Sonnets to Orpheus - German text that came yesterday from the.. 1966/01/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 228] Ernesto Cardenal Gethsemani, Ky Your piece on Cardenal's Gethsemani was very good. You are right that Cardenal is now this way and now that, d.. 1966/01/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 228] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender Do you read [Rainer Maria] Rilke at all? Does he mean anything to you? I think you would like the Duino Elegie.. 1966/01/17 [Ltrs: CforT p. 228] Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus / translated by J.B.L. Leishman Do you read [Rainer Maria] Rilke at all? Does he mean anything to you? I think you would like the Duino Elegie.. 1966/01/18 [Ltrs: CforT p. 155] Ernesto Cardenal Vida en El Amor Who is publishing your Vida en el amor? It is really excellent"”in some ways equal to Teilhard de Chardin even.. 1966/01/24 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 11] Ernesto Cardenal Vida en El Amor I took a short walk in the hollow behind the hermitage after dinner, then wrote a draft for a preface for Erne.. 1966/01/24 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 11] Kitaro Nishida Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. and introd. by Robert Schinzinger in collaboration with I. Koyama and T. Kojima. Finished Burtt and Nishida (Unity of Opposites). N. is certainly the one philosopher to whom I respond the mos.. 1966/01/28 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 12] Miguel de Unamuno Agonia del cristianismo I still read a lot of Rilke and Unamuno - with questions and reservations. They are often unsatisfactory in mu.. 1966/01/28 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 12] Rainer Maria Rilke Neue Gedichte I still read a lot of Rilke and Unamuno - with questions and reservations. They are often unsatisfactory in mu.. 1966/01/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 355] Kitaro Nishida Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. and introd. by Robert Schinzinger in collaboration with I. Koyama and T. Kojima. "The world where innumerable individuals, negating each other, are united, is one simple world which, negating.. 1966/02/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 357] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender Distraction - from the illusory expectation of some fulfillment, which in the end is only a human loneliness... 1966/02/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 17] Irenee Hausherr Jean le Solitaire (pseudo Jean de Lycopolis), Dialogue sur l'Ame et les passions des hommes Today I have spent all this time on a discovery. "John the Solitary," a Syrian, whose Dialogue on the Soul an.. 1966/02/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 18] Rainer Maria Rilke Book of Hours Talked on Rilke in Chapter Room and read 3 poems from the Book of Hours - their merits and deficiencies... 1966/02/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 527] Jean Pierre Caussade, de Abandonment ot Divine Providence Have you ever read Caussades's Abandonment to Divine Providence? At times it is a bit overlogical, but still i.. 1966/02/12 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 360] Peter Damian Works. 1853. S. Petri Damiani S.R.E. cardinalis episcopi ostiensis, ordinis s. Benedicti, e congregatione fontis-avellanæ : opera omnia : collecta primum ac argumentis et notationibus illustrat / Saint Peter Damian ; studio ac labore domni Constantini Caj Qui autem cellulam perpetuus incolit, ad stabilitatis praeconium de toto corporelinguam facit. [Whoever dwells.. 1966/02/13 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 226] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender As to Rilke - I know what you mean. He is a fine poet but I have grave reservations about him too. As prophet .. 1966/02/13 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 226] Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus / translated by J.B.L. Leishman As to Rilke - I know what you mean. He is a fine poet but I have grave reservations about him too. As prophet .. 1966/02/13 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 226] Victor Hammer Fragments for C.R.H. Not only do I like 'Pebbles' [note 198: "Pebbles was the working title that Victor used for a book that was su.. 1966/02/21 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 20] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender Rilke again. Rereading the II Elegy and [Romano] Guardini about it. It seems to me that Guardini, while right .. 1966/02/21 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 20] Romano Guardini Rilke's 'Duino Elegies': An Interpretation Rilke again. Rereading the II Elegy and [Romano] Guardini about it. It seems to me that Guardini, while right .. 1966/03/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 24] Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Today, warm, grey, went down early for Mass, took a hot bath in the infirmary and got into secular clothes to .. 1966/03/05 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 24] Chung-Yuan Chang Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry A fine book on Creativity and Tao by Chang Chung-Yuan from McGill. (Took so long to get here it is already due.. 1966/03/16 [Ltrs: CforT p. 260] Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender "¦Liked everything you said about Rilke. The things you did not like about him were the things I thought you p.. 1966/03/16 [Ltrs: CforT p. 260] Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet "¦Liked everything you said about Rilke. The things you did not like about him were the things I thought you p.. 1966/03/16 [Ltrs: CforT p. 260] Rainer Maria Rilke Neue Gedichte "¦Liked everything you said about Rilke. The things you did not like about him were the things I thought you p.. 1966/03/16 [Ltrs: CforT p. 260] Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus / translated by J.B.L. Leishman "¦Liked everything you said about Rilke. The things you did not like about him were the things I thought you p.. 1966/03/19 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 30] Milarepa Sixty songs of Milarepa / transl. by Garma C.C. Chang ; select. and introd. by Bikkhu Khantipalo Read some Angela of Foligno (I love her admirable, passionate fervor and honesty) and St. Thomas on the light .. 1966/03/21 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 31] Abu al-Qasim Junayd ibn Muhammad life, personality and writings of al-Junayd : a study of a third-ninth century mystic / Abu al-Qasim Junayd ibn Muhammad ; with an ed. and transl. of his writings by Ali Hassan Abdel-Kader Began the book on [Abu'l Q sim] Junayd which Abdul Aziz sent - perhaps will take this to the hospital, but don.. 1966/04/06 [Ltrs: HGL p. 375] Johannes Tauler Book of the Poor in Spirit In the hospital I have read a lot of Eckhart and am more and more convinced of his greatness. Before coming I .. 1966/04/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 38] Eckhart Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney The best thing of all was lying reading Eckhart, or sitting up, when I finally could, copying sentences from t.. 1966/04/22 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 234] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Mysticism : Christian and Buddhist Many thanks for the Pavese books. I am well into one of them and he is a marvelous writer. I returned Suzuki o.. 1966/04/22 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 234] Edwin Muir Autobiography Many thanks for the Pavese books. I am well into one of them and he is a marvelous writer. I returned Suzuki o.. 1966/04/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 43] Ned O'Gorman Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words of Revolution Cannot eat much, do not feel like work (writing). Am delaying work on the bits for Ned O'Gorman's book [Note 5.. 1966/04/22 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 234] Robert Stephen Briffault Mothers: the Matriarchal Theory of Social Origins Many thanks for the Pavese books. I am well into one of them and he is a marvelous writer. I returned Suzuki o.. 1966/04/24 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 44]   Dhammapada Today - back to meditation on the Dhammapada - something sound to support me when everything else is quicksand.. 1966/04/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 322] Erich Fromm Heart of Man: Its Genious for Good and Evil The other day I finished your Heart of Man and found much good in this expansion of the former short work. [no.. 1966/05/08 [Ltrs: CforT p. 262] Matsuo Basho Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches / translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa Thanks for the books which came in yesterday. Have already begun the Bash which is just what I have been wanti.. 1966/05/20 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 228] Walker Percy Last Gentleman If you have in the library Walker Percy's new novel The Last Gentleman - look at pages 26-28, a very funny com.. 1966/05/21 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 67] Walker Percy Last Gentleman In the evening to get away from it, began reading Walker Percy's new novel [The Last Gentleman] and then final.. 1966/06/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 75] Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism / pseudonym of Ernst Lothar Hoffman Finished [Idries] Shah on Sufism [The Sufis (New York, 1964)] the other day. Parts of its are good. Reading La.. 1966/06/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 75] Idries Shah Sufis / Idries Shah ; introd. by Robert Graves Finished [Idries] Shah on Sufism [The Sufis (New York, 1964)] the other day. Parts of its are good. Reading La.. 1966/06/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 84] Robert C. Tucker Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx A good morning, cool and free. I can at least read again. Finished [Robert C.] Tucker's excellent book Philoso.. 1966/06/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 84] Søren Kierkegaard Sickness unto Death "The self is the relationship to oneself," Kierkegaard. But not prescinding to relationship to the other seen.. 1966/06/16 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 85] Albert Camus etranger : roman "Il n'etait pas mon père, il etait avec les autres [He was not my father, he was with theothers]," says Meurs.. 1966/06/17 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 86] Albert Camus Myth of Sisyphus Went down to concelebrate early, then came back and spent the whole morning on a slow reading of The Myth of S.. 1966/06/19 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 86] Albert Camus Myth of Sisyphus The great and deliberate flaw in Camus - a flaw on which he insists - is the "ethic of quantity." Certainly t.. 1966/06/19 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 86] Albert Camus peste The great and deliberate flaw in Camus - a flaw on which he insists - is the "ethic of quantity." Certainly t.. 1966/06/24 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 343] Hans Urs von Balthasar Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. Got up, and during my meditation (having killed an enormous centipede on the wall of the front room - would no.. 1966/06/24 [Ltrs: SofC p. 308-09] Ira Progroff Symbolic & the Real: A New Psychological Approach to the Fuller Experience of Personal Existence Do you remember that some time ago you sent me a book of Ira Progoff, The Symbolic and the Real, and asked me .. 1966/06/25 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 88] Eugenio Montale Ossi di Seppia Came upon [Eugenio] Montale's magnificent poem on the sea of ancient wisdom, which sums up exactly my task. (A.. 1966/06/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 91] Hans Urs von Balthasar Gloire et la croix. Vol 1: Apparition I don't read German well enough to read Von Balthasar in the original, and in French he is fogged and confusin.. 1966/06/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 91] Hans Urs von Balthasar Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. I don't read German well enough to read Von Balthasar in the original, and in French he is fogged and confusin.. 1966/06/30 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 92] Meister Eckhart Beati pauperes spiritus. English. Meister Eckhart's sermon on Beati pauperes spiritu / (Eckhart von Hochheim) ; transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney "Blessed are the pure in heart who leave everything to God now as they did before theyever existed." Eckhart .. 1966/07/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 95-96] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Idiot Blazing hot yesterday afternoon - I found a good breeze at one of my favorite spots, the N.E. corner of St. Ed.. 1966/07/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 95] Thera Nyanaponika Heart of Buddhist Meditation Blazing hot yesterday afternoon - I found a good breeze at one of my favorite spots, the N.E. corner of St. Ed.. 1966/07/20 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 98] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Idiot Reading Dostoievsky's The Idiot, a marvelous and fascinating book. What a world! And how he structures it, wit.. 1966/07/20 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 98] G. J. Warnock English Philosophy since 1900 Reading Dostoievsky's The Idiot, a marvelous and fascinating book. What a world! And how he structures it, wit.. 1966/07/20 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 97] John (Jingxiong) Wu Golden Age of Zen Difficult to work (at writing) and difficult to get anyone to do my typing since Bro. Dunstan Foretich left. Y.. 1966/07/20 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 98] Thera Nyanaponika Heart of Buddhist Meditation Reading Dostoievsky's The Idiot, a marvelous and fascinating book. What a world! And how he structures it, wit.. 1966/07/21 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 98]   Perfectae Caritatis Revising some notes on monastic life - read through the Council Decree Perfectae Caritatis ["Of perfect charit.. 1966/07/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 99] John (Jingxiong) Wu Golden Age of Zen Finished the first draft for my preface to John Wu's book on Zen. It is a great relief to get this out of the .. 1966/07/25 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 101] Albert Camus homme revolte Am going back to Camus' L'Homme revolte - and as with Sisyphus I now find I am ready for it... 1966/07/25 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 101] Josef Luk Hromadka Gospel for Atheists Yesterday my chapter talk was on [Josef Luk] Hromadka's Gospel for Atheists [Geneva, 1965] and today I read an.. 1966/07/27 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 102] Jean Paul Sartre Mots Am reading Sartre's Les Mots, a curious, brilliant book, one of his best. An antiautobiography - the variety o.. 1966/07/28 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 103] William Hamilton Radical theology and the Death of God [William] Hamilton (God is dead) is less interesting than [Thomas J.J.] Altizer. Pedestrian optimism - Radical.. 1966/07/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 103] G. J. Warnock English Philosophy since 1900 Ludicrous chapter on Metaphysics in Warnock's English Philosophy Since 1900. True, there is no metaphysics in .. 1966/07/30 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 233] Edwin Muir Autobiography Can you help me with some more books? I have to review Edwin Muir's collected poems for Sewanee Review and I w.. 1966/07/30 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 233] Edwin Muir Collected Poems Can you help me with some more books? I have to review Edwin Muir's collected poems for Sewanee Review and I w.. 1966/07/31 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 105-06] Edwin Muir Estate of Poetry Small wonder that I have in these weeks walked in the world of folk-song and passion - the only one adequate f.. 1966/07/31 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 107-08] Edwin Muir Estate of Poetry I like Edwin Muir's Norton lectures on poetry - very good one on Yeats, and a lot of sense in his lecture on l.. 1966/07/31 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 257] Edwin Muir Estate of Poetry We have had some nasty weather, very hot, but lately it has been much better. I am going along with work, main.. 1966/07/31 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 105] T.S. Eliot Sacred Wood [T. S.] Eliot's Sacred Wood remains a book of singular value, one of those books in which every sentence stops.. 1966/08/00 [Ltrs: SofC p. 311] Edwin Muir Autobiography By the way I am reviewing the collected poems of Edwin Muir, and incidentally reading his autobiography along .. 1966/08/00 [Ltrs: SofC p. 311] Edwin Muir Collected Poems By the way I am reviewing the collected poems of Edwin Muir, and incidentally reading his autobiography along .. 1966/08/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 376] G. J. Warnock English Philosophy since 1900 I have a real repugnance for writing things that tell everyone specifically how to do something or other spiri.. 1966/08/05 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 109] William Hamilton Radical theology and the Death of God This morning I have finally really begun to dig the God is dead set. Wm. Hamilton's essay "Thursday's Child" .. 1966/08/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 111] Herman Hesse Steppenwolf The independence of the Steppenwolf says H[ermann] Hesse, is really only a pseudoindependence. The autonomy of.. 1966/08/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 113] Johannes Tauler Book of the Poor in Spirit I walked out in a broad open field in the East Farm (Linton's) and watched the high cool clouds, and said alou.. 1966/08/09 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 341] Albert Camus homme revolte I am not clear in what "live and act like atheists" presents a difficulty. How does an atheist act? Well, the.. 1966/08/13 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 113-14] Edwin Muir Autobiography Yesterday my arm hurt so much I could hardly type a letter (to Dame M[arcella Van Bruyn] at Stanbrook and to [.. 1966/08/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 114-15] Eugenio Montale Selected Poems / introduction by Glauco Cambon I walked in the woods (D[erby] D[ay] place) for a while; read some bits in a selection of Protestant Mystics -.. 1966/08/18 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 115-16] Rene Char Fureur et mystère / Rene Char ; pref. de Yves Berger Have had difficulties for some time with the verse of Rene Char - finding it impenetrable. Today I think I hav.. 1966/08/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 52] Edwin Muir Autobiography Do you know Edwin Muir? You must have read some of his poems. I am sure you would like him very much"”you have.. 1966/08/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 117] Rene Char Fureur et mystère / Rene Char ; pref. de Yves Berger Yesterday - a fine sunny afternoon full of white and blue cumulous clouds. Went out tothe D[erby] D[ay] place .. 1966/08/27 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 118] Cesare Pavese Harvesters / Translation from the Italian Paesi Tuoi The spell of Cesare Pavese, a novelist. Italian hill towns in the north or rather villages in the foothills of.. 1966/08/27 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 118] Cesare Pavese Moon and the Bonfires / Translation from the Italian La Luna e i Falô The spell of Cesare Pavese, a novelist. Italian hill towns in the north or rather villages in the foothills of.. 1966/08/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 106] Konrad Lorenz On Aggression Thanks very much indeed for sending me Konrad Lorenz's book On Aggression. I am enjoying it very much. It is a.. 1966/08/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 119] Albert Camus Carnets janvier 1942 - mars 1951 / Albert Camus Camus in Notebooks, planning a novel: " "¦ that void, that little hollow in her since they discovered each oth.. 1966/09/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 120]   Au coeur même de l'Eglise. Une recherche monastique: les frères de la Vierge des Pauvres Still using P. Erwin's Directory for his Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor - Au coeur même de l'Eglise [At th.. 1966/09/05 [Ltrs: CforT p. 248-49] Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot I am working on another longer series of short ones ["Edifying Cables," published as Cables to the Ace] which.. 1966/09/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 130] Paul Klee Diaries of Paul Klee In the U. of L. library, read Sartre on bad faith (can use it - but oversubtle??). Then found the Bingham poet.. 1966/09/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 257] Douglas Bush John Milton: A Sketch of His Life and Writings "¦ I have Douglas Bush's new book on Milton and like it. I think I will finally get back to some Milton and gi.. 1966/09/13 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 133] Marshall McLuhan Understanding media : the extensions of man / by Marshall McLuhan Reading Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media. I think it is very important indeed for monks to go into this. C.. 1966/09/17 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 134-35] Albert Camus Fall and Exile and the kingdom / Albert Camus ; transl. from the French Chute by Justin O'Brien Reread Camus' "Renegad" and today the "Growing Stone." I wish to compare them. Nostalgia for primitive commu.. 1966/09/17 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 135] Rene Char Fureur et mystère / Rene Char ; pref. de Yves Berger Yesterday in the woods I read the whole of Rene Char Feuillets d'Hypnos [Leaves of Hypnos] - powerful, compres.. 1966/09/20 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 137] Jacques Maritain mimeographed conference in December 1964 In the pile of things I have lying around waiting to be read, I picked out today the mimeographed conference o.. 1966/09/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 498] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics Thanks for your letter and for the essay on the Augustinian theology of sexuality which I liked very much. I d.. 1966/09/21 [Ltrs: Ruether p. 8] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics Thanks for your letter and for the essay on Augustinian theology of sexuality which I liked very much. I don't.. 1966/09/21 [Ltrs: HGL p. 498] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison Thanks for your letter and for the essay on the Augustinian theology of sexuality which I liked very much. I d.. 1966/09/21 [Ltrs: Ruether p. 8] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison Thanks for your letter and for the essay on Augustinian theology of sexuality which I liked very much. I don't.. 1966/09/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 140] Albert Camus Malentendu My reading and study of Camus continues very fruitful. Have now read enough of him and on him so that everythi.. 1966/09/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 141-42] Julien Green Chaque homme dans sa Nuit A letter came today from Julien Green - about my notes on Chaque homme dans sa Nuit. "Your remarks about my no.. 1966/09/26 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 143-44] Henri Montherlant Va jouer avec cette poussière; carnets 1958-1964 In [Henri de] Montherlant's Va jouer avec cette poussière; carnets 1958-1964 [Paris, 1966] - a note on a mistr.. 1966/09/26 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 143] Michel Montaigne On Solitude In the U. of L. - read Montaigne's "On Solitude." I usually find him a bit disappointing. This was nice writi.. 1966/10/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 144-45] Douglas Bush John Milton: A Sketch of His Life and Writings Have finished Douglas Bush's excellent little book on Milton [John Milton: A Sketch of His Life and Writings (.. 1966/10/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 229] Edwin Muir Autobiography Here is uncorrected bit on Muir, thought you would like it. His literary essays are very fine and as a poet I .. 1966/10/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 317] Gabriela Mistral Motivos de San Francisco : poems en prosa / por Gabriela Mistral ; seleccion y prologo de Cesar Diaz-Munoz Cormatches Today, feast of St. Francis, I am reading a book you would like and ought to have there: Motivos de San Franci.. 1966/10/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 145-46] Karl Rahner The Dynamic Element in the Church (Quaestiones Disputatae) "If we had real humility and goodness we would see far more marvels of goodness in the Church. But because we .. 1966/10/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 146] Karl Rahner The Dynamic Element in the Church (Quaestiones Disputatae) K. Rahner shows why the Church is justified in being suspicious of those who claim charismatic privileges: "Sh.. 1966/10/13 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 148] Jacques Maritain paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps present On the evening of the 6th - Jacques Maritain, John H. Griffin, Penn Jones and Babeth Manual arrived. A wonderf.. 1966/10/13 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 148] Penn Jones Forgive My Grieve: A Critical Review of the Warren Commission Report on the Assasination of President John F. Kennedy Penn Jones has been working on the Warren Commission report and his book [Forgive My Grief: A Critical Review .. 1966/10/14 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 149-50] Albert Camus etranger : roman The letter preface to an American school edition, L'Etranger (preface of Camus himself) has things to say on t.. 1966/10/16 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 150] Albert Camus Carnets janvier 1942 - mars 1951 / Albert Camus Three small harlequins - two sweetgums and a maple - stand bright against the dark background of pine and ceda.. 1966/10/27 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 151] Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire Finished a preface to Nhat Hanh's new book [Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire, 1967], which is clear and interes.. 1966/10/28 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 152] Francois Rene Chateaubriand Vie de Rance Reading Chateaubriand's life of Rance. This too is a fascinating work of art. Beautiful in its aberrations. A .. 1966/10/29 [Ltrs: CforT p. 48] Francois Rene Chateaubriand Vie de Rance I am reading Chateaubriand's Vie de Rance for the first time. It is an extraordinary piece of writing, constan.. 1966/10/31 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 154] Albert Camus Etat de siège Am reading Camus's L'Etat de siège [State of Siege]. The whole Plague theme is one of the best and most powerf.. 1966/10/31 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 154] Albert Camus Malentendu Am reading Camus's L'Etat de siège [State of Siege]. The whole Plague theme is one of the best and most powerf.. 1966/11/01 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 155] Albert Camus Etat de siège Finished reading Camus's L'Etat de siège. It is really lamentable. A disaster. It began OK, and the idea is go.. 1966/11/01 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 155] Ulrich Mauser Christ in the Wilderness The wilderness theme in the Bible. Am reading a good book on it by Ulrich Mauser [Christ in the Wilderness (Lo.. 1966/11/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 156] Antonin Artaud Oeuvres complètes I went down in the dark and snow to say my three masses early (others are not saying the 3 Masses anymore - a .. 1966/11/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 157] John Milton Paradise Lost In these circumstances, readings on Paradise Lost have been deeply moving and magnificent. At times I have fel.. 1966/11/05 [Ltrs: SofC p. 319] Pablo Neruda Residence on Earth Just want to take up a couple of points from your letter, for which many thanks. Certainly I know [Pablo] Neru.. 1966/11/10 [Ltrs: CforT p. 264] Antonin Artaud Oeuvres complètes I like very much your piece on [Carl Theodor] Dreyer's St. Joan [the film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc]"”not hav.. 1966/11/10 [Ltrs: CforT p. 264] Rene Char Fureur et mystère / Rene Char ; pref. de Yves Berger I like very much your piece on [Carl Theodor] Dreyer's St. Joan [the film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc]"”not hav.. 1966/11/11 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 158] George H. Williams Wilderness and the Paradise in Christian Thought This morning began reading a fine book of George Williams (Harvard), Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thou.. 1966/11/12 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 159] T.S. Eliot On Poetry and Poets Eliot's essay "What Is a Classic?" is short, brilliant and absurd. His definition of a Classic is solidly use.. 1966/11/14 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 161] Nathalie Sarraute Portrait d'un inconnu : roman / Nathalie Sarraute ; pref. de J.-P. Sartre Delight. Nathalie Sarraute. Finally reading Portrait d'un inconnu [Portrait of a Man Unknown] which has been l.. 1966/11/16 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 161] George H. Williams Wilderness and the Paradise in Christian Thought Great richness for me of the Williams book on Wilderness. So many new areas open up.Material on the American p.. 1966/11/18 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 144] Jacques Maritain paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laïc s'interroge a  propos du temps présent Jacques Maritain was here in October and we had a fine visit. He is very much a hermit now, and his latest boo.. 1966/11/18 [Ltrs: SofC p. 322] Jacques Maritain paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laîc s'interroge à propos du temps present Jacques Maritain was here in October and we had a fine visit. He is very much a hermit now, and his latest boo.. 1966/11/18 [Ltrs: SofC p. 321] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Chances de la spiritualite occidentale Yesterday your Chances de la Spiritualite Occidentale arrived and I want to thank you very much for it. Though.. 1966/12/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 165] William Faukner Go Down Moses Early morning - reading Faulkner's The Bear. Glad the time has come for me to read this. Shattering, cleansing.. 1966/12/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 166] Nathalie Sarraute Portrait d'un inconnu : roman / Nathalie Sarraute ; pref. de J.-P. Sartre What a contrast between Faulkner and Sarraute. The clever aridity of the Frenchwoman and the passionate myths .. 1966/12/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 344] Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez (ed.) Letters from Mississippi The book Letters from Mississippi [edited by Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez] has reached me and I am reading it.. 1966/12/06 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 166] William Faukner Go Down Moses What a contrast between Faulkner and Sarraute. The clever aridity of the Frenchwoman and the passionate myths .. 1966/12/06 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 166] William Faukner Go Down Moses Great appetite for Faulkner now. The Bear can be read as a perfect tract on the monastic vocation, i.e. especi.. 1966/12/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 435-36] Abraham Joshua Heschel Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence I have still to thank you for a couple of books of yours which came in during the past months. I appreciate th.. 1966/12/13 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 359] John (Jingxiong) Wu Golden Age of Zen By the way, did I ever tell you John Wu has written quite a good book [The Golden Age of Zen (1966)] on Zen (t.. 1966/12/14 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 168] William Faukner Go Down Moses I am still reading Faulkner. Nothing impresses me as much as The Bear. I suppose I need to get Light in August.. 1966/12/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 173-74] William Faulkner Wild Palms Rinzai and another tremendous bout with Faulkner [The Wild Palms] - this time the convict and the woman and th.. 1966/12/25 [Ltrs: HGL p. 477] Chogyam Trungpa Born in Tibet Many thanks for the book Born in Tibet. I have already read your excellent preface, which faces the problems c.. 1966/12/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 175] Augustin Hideshi Kishi Spiritual consciousness in Zen from a Thomistic theological point of view Finished Fr. [Augustin] Kishi's book on Zen and St. Thomas [Spiritual Consciousness in Zen from a Thomistic Th.. 1966/12/29 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 175] William Faulkner Sartoris / William Faulkner ; forew. by Robert Cantwell ; after. by Lawrance Thompson It is good to have accepted a man like Faulkner completely - then you can read and enjoy even an inferior book.. 1966/12/30 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 175] Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez (ed.) Letters from Mississippi Reading Letters from Mississippi - the SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] book [edited by Elizab.. 1967/01/01 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 181] Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez (ed.) Letters from Mississippi While I was eating breakfast, read in Letters from Mississippi how the SNCC volunteers and the Negroes watched.. 1967/01/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 182] Joseph P. Lyford Airtight Cage Finished [Joseph P.] Lyford's book - The Airtight Cage [New York, 1966] - a clear-cut and impassioned report o.. 1967/01/07 [Ltrs: SofC p. 326] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Chances de la spiritualite occidentale Some useful remarks on your subject have been made by Dom Jean Leclercq, O.S.B., in his book Chances de la Spi.. 1967/01/10 [Ltrs: HGL p. 113] Amiya Chandra Chakravarty Tagore Reader I am very grateful for your kind letter and for the other package of books. I am especially glad to have the o.. 1967/01/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 185] Loren Eiseley Firmament of Time Another "natural" for me - Loren Eiseley. Amiya Chakravarty spoke of him and sent two books, and Harcourt Bra.. 1967/01/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 184] Romano Guardini Pascal for Our Time Pascal is my kind. The [Romano] Guardini work on him [Pascal for Our Time (New York, 1966)] is fine - one of G.. 1967/01/20 [Ltrs: CforT p. 210] Giles Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians I have just read a beautiful book by [Romano] Guardini on Pascal [Pascal for Our Time]: this same Pascal who s.. 1967/01/20 [Ltrs: CforT p. 210] Romano Guardini Pascal for Our Time I have just read a beautiful book by [Romano] Guardini on Pascal [Pascal for Our Time]: this same Pascal who s.. 1967/01/22 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 96] Romano Guardini Pascal for Our Time I have in fact just been reading Romano Guardini's excellent little book on Pascal [Pascal for Our Time]. He a.. 1967/01/22 [Ltrs: Ruether p. 13] Romano Guardini Pascal for Our Time I have, in fact, just been reading Romano Guardini's excellent little book on Pascal. He analyzes the "demon o.. 1967/01/24 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 187] William Faulkner Wild Palms Sunday was Septuagesima. I am giving talks on Faulkner still ("Old Man") and rereading the whole of Wild Palm.. 1967/01/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 51] Jean Cocteau Enfants Terribles Ed Rice asked me to write an article on Fr. Pascal Bourgoint for Jubilee. I said I might be able to do this la.. 1967/01/30 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 189] Theodora Kroeber Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America am reading Ishi - which Doris Dana sent. A heartrending book about the last of the Yahi Indians - victims of g.. 1967/02/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 191] John Julius Norwich Mount Athos Yesterday it got cold in the afternoon. Rain, sleet, snow. I walked in the woods, came home, built a fire, mad.. 1967/02/04 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 360] Flannnery O'Connor Wise Blood I am reading Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and am struck by the way she wrote all the essentials of the God i.. 1967/02/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 191] Theodora Kroeber Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America Finished Ishi. A moving book. The best and the worst in America comes out in it. The furious stupidity and vio.. 1967/02/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 191] William Faulkner Essays, Speeches and Public Letters / ed. James B. Meriwether I picked up Faulkner's Essays, Speeches and Pub[lic] Letters [ed. James B. Meriwether (New York, 1965)] at the.. 1967/02/06 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 193] Irenee Hausherr Penthos: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East Yesterday (Sunday) was out in the woods - reading [Irenee] Hausherr's Penthos [Rome, 1944]. A nice sunny, quie.. 1967/02/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 194] Rosemary Ruether Church Against Itself So Rosemary Ruether in her ms. [The Church Against Itself, 1967] on the Church which she has lent me. More or .. 1967/02/09 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 195-96] Rosemary Ruether Church Against Itself Reading Rosemary Ruether's ms. on the Church. One point she makes is completely convincing: when the "glory of.. 1967/02/14 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 198] Rosemary Ruether Church Against Itself Finishing the Ruether ms. Really a question of getting new bearings. The book is important - at least for me. .. 1967/02/17 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 147] Jean Leclercq St. Bernard mystique Your St. Bernard mystique is altogether admirable because, while being simple and fluent, it communicates to t.. 1967/02/17 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 275] Kenneth Rexroth Collected Shorter Poems Thanks for the Rexroth Collected [Shorter Poems] which is very nicely done. I will get into it soon and perhap.. 1967/02/19 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 200] William Faukner Go Down Moses Back to Camus (I have a booklet to write on The Plague. Lee Belford at NYU asked for this). Am glad to get to .. 1967/02/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 201] William Faulkner Sound and the Fury Box of Faulkner books came yesterday from Random House. I began The Sound and the Fury, which I had never read.. 1967/03/09 [Ltrs: HGL p. 504] Athanasius Life of Anthony This business of saying, as you do, that the monk is in the same boat with the Manichaean but just refuses, ou.. 1967/03/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 204] William Carlos Williams Selected Essays Reading W[illiam] C[arlos] Williams' Essays in the early morning - they are very informative. Back in the 30's.. 1967/03/11 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 205-06] Louis Zukofsky "A" 1-12 Did I mention anywhere here Zukofsky's two letters. They were beautiful. He liked my revisions (at which I was.. 1967/03/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 291] Louis Zukofsky "A" 1-12 And now to your books [Bottom: On Shakespeare; All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958; "A" 1-12; "A" 9; a.. 1967/03/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 291] Louis Zukofsky Bottom: On Shakespeare And now to your books [Bottom: On Shakespeare; All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958; "A" 1-12; "A" 9; a.. 1967/03/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 291] Louis Zukofsky Test of Poetry And now to your books [Bottom: On Shakespeare; All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958; "A" 1-12; "A" 9; a.. 1967/03/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 291] Louis Zukofsky The Collected Short Poems,1923-1958 And now to your books [Bottom: On Shakespeare; All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958; "A" 1-12; "A" 9; a.. 1967/03/19 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 314] Robert Eduard Duncan Of the War: Passages I was particularly impressed by the Robert Duncan booklet of "passages" on the War. A really fine piece of poe.. 1967/03/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 346] Dag Hammarskjöld Markings Thanks for your nice letter. I will give you what help I can. First of all, I have read Markings with great in.. 1967/03/23 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 209] Raymond J. Nogard Lord of the Absurd The new books that came in from Herder & Herder strike me more and more as superficial, contrived, thrown-toge.. 1967/03/23 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 257] William Carlos Williams Selected Essays "¦ I thought of you and your work on Marianne Moore the other day when I was reading some excellent stuff on h.. 1967/03/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 164] James W. Douglas Non-Violent Cross: A Theology of Revolution and Peace Ping Ferry sent me what is evidently a chapter of a new book of yours and I just want to say how much I have b.. 1967/03/31 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 209] William Faulkner Sound and the Fury Easter Monday morning Pee Wee McGruder came up to finish work on the well digging. They put in the casing afte.. 1967/04/01 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 211] Albert Camus peste Doing some notes on Camus' Plague - (background) for the booklet I am to write this summer... 1967/04/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 213] Irenee Hausherr Solitude et vie contemplative d'après l'Hesychasme Hausherr brings out the fact that Athonite Hesychasm precisely bears on solitude and anachoresis as essential .. 1967/04/08 [Ltrs: HGL p. 111] Jacques Maritain paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps present As for Maritain's book [Le Paysan de la Garonne, 1966], yes, I will speak to him about it. His criticism bears.. 1967/04/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 218] Johannes Tauler Book of the Poor in Spirit On the other hand I know where my roots really are - in the mystical tradition, not in the active and anxious .. 1967/04/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 292] Louis Zukofsky "A" 1-12 The long Marxist section of "A" brought back the thirties as nothing else (though also a friend sent me a pic.. 1967/04/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 292] Louis Zukofsky Bottom: On Shakespeare The long Marxist section of "A" brought back the thirties as nothing else (though also a friend sent me a pic.. 1967/04/19 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 221] Pierre Dommergues Saul Bellow [Pierre] Dommergues' book [Saul Bellow (Paris, 1967)] came yesterday from Paris. Very interesting. I like the .. 1967/04/28 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 226] Alex Haley Autobiography of Malcolm X I am reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X, which is an impressive book. Took it out into the sun in the wood.. 1967/04/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 218-19] Jerome Rothenberg Gorky Poems Very good to get your letter and all the books: also your own ms. of Cuba poems (I'll return, you may need thi.. 1967/05/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 226] Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice Reading [Frantz] Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth [New York, 1963]), Malcolm X and beginning Soul on Ice by El.. 1967/05/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 226] Franz Fanon Wretched of the Earth Reading [Frantz] Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth [New York, 1963]), Malcolm X and beginning Soul [on Ice by E.. 1967/05/04 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 227] Franz Fanon Wretched of the Earth Reading Fanon - and in contrast - stuff about Hippies in S.F. and an illuminating critique of Salinger by Mary.. 1967/05/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 198] Louis Massignon Peasant of the Garonne I am terribly sorry to hear of the sufferings AAL has had to go through. I will keep him and all his family in.. 1967/05/06 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 228] Albert Camus peste Very curious. This morning I begin my work on Camus' Plague and last evening coming up from the monastery I fo.. 1967/05/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 129] Lewis Mumford Myth of the machine : technics and human development Thanks for the Nips blasts. The enclosed will show that I am doing my own small part [a letter to The New York.. 1967/05/06 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 229] Michel Foucault Madness and Civilization "Did not Diemerbroek know of people stricken with the plague who had been cured by music?" [Michel] Foucault... 1967/05/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 229] Gerald Syke Cool Millennium In the evening I began reading Gerald Syke's book The Cool Millennium [Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967] - with whic.. 1967/05/12 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 332] Toshihiko Izutsu Comparative Study of the Key Philosopical Concepts in Sufism and Taoism I am at present reading a most revealing book by a Japanese scholar, Toshihiko Izutsu, comparing the Sufi myst.. 1967/05/12 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 332] William Johnston S.J. Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing I am at present reading a most revealing book by a Japanese scholar, Toshihiko Izutsu, comparing the Sufi myst.. 1967/05/14 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 235] Hieronymus Vita Sancti Pauli Eremitatae As I have been asked to do a piece on Paul the Hermit,13 I reread Jerome's Vita today. A work of art, really. .. 1967/05/21 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 237] George Gamow Thirty Years that shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Physics My breakfast reading (which is supposed to be "light" and informative) is now a new book by [George] Gamow on.. 1967/05/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 238] Michel Foucault Madness and Civilization Finished Foucault Madness and Civilization - a really remarkable book. Not sure that I have got more than a te.. 1967/05/27 [Ltrs: HGL p. 555] John (Jingxiong) Wu Golden Age of Zen Recently I heard from John Wu, Jr., but not from John Sr. I must write to him. I wish he could get a publisher.. 1967/05/27 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 238] Niels Blaedel Harmony and Unity: The Life of Niels Bohr A beautiful May morning. Limpid clarity. Silence. Birds. Air thick with the sweetness of honeysuckle. Thank Go.. 1967/05/27 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 238] Toshihiko Izutsu Comparative Study of the Key Philosopical Concepts in Sufism and Taoism A beautiful May morning. Limpid clarity. Silence. Birds. Air thick with the sweetness of honeysuckle. Thank Go.. 1967/06/01 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 242] Albert Camus peste I sit here with a wind breaker on. It is dark. As far as I am concerned it was a good day - quiet. Began writi.. 1967/06/01 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 242] Ernst Benz Evolution and Christian hope : man's concept of the future from the early Fathers to Teilhard de Chardin / Ernst Benz ; transl. from the German by Heinz G. Frank I sit here with a wind breaker on. It is dark. As far as I am concerned it was a good day - quiet. Began writi.. 1967/06/03 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 243-44] Niels Blaedel Harmony and Unity: The Life of Niels Bohr Last evening: eating sardines and drinking a couple of cans of Schlitz, and reading the life of Niels Bohr, I .. 1967/06/04 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 319] Ernst Benz Evolution and Christian hope : man's concept of the future from the early Fathers to Teilhard de Chardin / Ernst Benz ; transl. from the German by Heinz G. Frank What really prompted me to write you today: I am reading a curious book called Evolution and Christian Hope by.. 1967/06/05 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 322-23] Albert Camus Peste All the way in and back I was listening to the news from Israel and Egypt, and is was just lik 1939 all over a.. 1967/06/09 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 246] Franz Kafka Castle I am reading Kafka's Castle again - this time it hits me harder than before, for some reason. It so exactly de.. 1967/06/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 247] Henri Lubac, De Teilhard de Chardin: The Man and His Meaning / transl. R. Hague Still have not read Teilhard de Chardin and really have no intention of doing so - though sometimes I pick up .. 1967/06/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 248] Jacques Maritain paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps present Then there is the ms. of the English translation of Maritain's Le Paysan de la Garonne. It is painful. I am so.. 1967/06/10 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 247] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Divine Milieu Still have not read Teilhard de Chardin and really have no intention of doing so - though sometimes I pick up .. 1967/06/11 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 248-49] Franz Kafka Castle The Castle. A fantastically suggestive book for anyone living precisely the kind of "Castl" life I live. An i.. 1967/06/12 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 249-50] Franz Kafka Castle Finished The Castle except for the fragments at the end. This is I think the third time I have read it. Surpri.. 1967/06/15 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 251] Lewis Mumford Myth of the machine : technics and human development The new Mumford book came today from HB&W and I began it. It seems to be excellent - and defies all the curren.. 1967/06/16 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 14] Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery Father Juenger sent me a nice letter and I must reply sometime. As to the Herrigel book on Zen: actually there.. 1967/06/16 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 251] Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery F. Juenger sent me a nice letter and I must reply some time. As to the Herrigel book on Zen: actually there ar.. 1967/06/19 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 317] Albert Camus Myth of Sisyphus I finished Sisyphus in a hurry, bored with its systematic aridity. It is inconclusive even in the thought of C.. 1967/06/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 135] Jacques Maritain paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps present I don't know how you are, but I am hoping you are well enough to read this and the enclosed and to give it a l.. 1967/06/22 [Ltrs: HGL p. 636] Albert Camus etranger : 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 Kafka trial / 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, De Teilhard 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.. 1967/06/23 [Ltrs: CforT p. 293-94] Ronald Johnson Book of the Green Man What I have just read and highly recommend: Ronald Johnson's lovely poem The Book of the Green Man "¦ It is re.. 1967/06/25 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 254] Henri Lubac, De Teilhard de Chardin: The Man and His Meaning / transl. R. Hague I am reading De Lubac's book on Teilhard de C. - Commonweal has asked for a review. Maybe I should not have ac.. 1967/06/25 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 254] Ronald Johnson Book of the Green Man Day before yesterday read Ronald Johnson's long poem The [Book of the] Green Man, which I think is one of the .. 1967/06/26 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 255] Albert Camus etranger : roman Importance of really studying Kafka's Trial is dawning on me. First of all for work - comparison with Camus' S.. 1967/06/26 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 255] Franz Kafka trial / by Franz Kafka Importance of really studying Kafka's Trial is dawning on me. First of all for work - comparison with Camus' S.. 1967/06/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 166] James W. Douglas Non-Violent Cross: A Theology of Revolution and Peace I am returning the two chapters with thanks. The one on the Council is really first-rate, one of the best thin.. 1967/07/03 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 136] James Kavanaugh Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church I hope you have not written to Anne Ford about sending me the galleys of your reader. I am very glad that she .. 1967/07/05 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 259] Albert Camus Actuelles I: Chroniques 1944-1948 Also I am back reading Camus - Actuelles I and Kafka's Trial - and will keep working toward the Camus book I w.. 1967/07/12 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 324] Ronald Johnson Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees I occasionally hear from Jonathan Williams and his company out in Aspen (Ron Johnson['s A line of Poetry, A Ro.. 1967/07/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 95] Albert Camus peste I wrote a pamphlet on Camus's Plague for Seabury Press and thought I'd dedicate it to you, so here is a copy o.. 1967/07/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 310] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Zen and Japanese culture Suzuki books: one of the best to start with is a big fancy book called Zen and Japanese Culture, and it ought .. 1967/07/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 310] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Zen and Psychoanalysis Suzuki books: one of the best to start with is a big fancy book called Zen and Japanese Culture, and it ought .. 1967/07/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 310] Paul Reps Zen flesh, Zen bones : a collection of Zen & pre-Zen writings / by Paul Reps Suzuki books: one of the best to start with is a big fancy book called Zen and Japanese Culture, and it ought .. 1967/07/20 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 267] Albert Camus Reflexions sur la guillotine I am working on Camus's Reflexions sur la guillotine [Reflections on the Guillotine] - a powerful and subtle p.. 1967/07/20 [Ltrs: CforT p. 282-83] Janheinz Jahn Muntu: African Culture and Western World It is good news to hear you can perhaps use Bantu philosophy in your new book, which sounds like a very good i.. 1967/07/20 [Ltrs: CforT p. 282-83] Placide Tempels philosophie bantou It is good news to hear you can perhaps use Bantu philosophy in your new book, which sounds like a very good i.. 1967/07/27 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 253] Victor Hammer Fragments for C.R.H. Victor's beautiful book - surelyhis most beautiful in every way - arrived this morning and I have spent the af.. 1967/07/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 160] Ernesto Cardenal Salmos Yesterday's copy of the German edition of your Psalms [English translation, The Psalms of Struggle and Liberat.. 1967/08/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 272] Hanshan Surangama Sutra (Leng Yen Ching) / Chinese rendering by Master Paramiti of Central North India at Chih Chih Monastery, Canton, China, A. D. 705 ; commentary (abridged) by Ch'an Master Han Shan (1546-1623) ; transl. by Upasaka Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk) Evening. I sit up late again listening to crickets and frogs because I can't go to bed yet. I had to translate.. 1967/08/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 271] Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo Homo Militans Reading [Joost] Meerloo's remarkable manuscript Homo Militans [Militant Man] (not yet published in English - h.. 1967/08/07 [Ltrs: HGL p. 532] Hanshan Surangama Sutra (Leng Yen Ching) / Chinese rendering by Master Paramiti of Central North India at Chih Chih Monastery, Canton, China, A. D. 705 ; commentary (abridged) by Ch'an Master Han Shan (1546-1623) ; transl. by Upasaka Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk) Have I yet thanked you for the Surangama Sutra? If not, I do now. It is a book of essential importance. Of cou.. 1967/08/09 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 274] Carl Amery Capitulation: The Lesson of German Catholicism Reading Carl Amery's excellent book on the German Church. Capitulation [New York, 1967]. Instructive for every.. 1967/08/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 107] Albert Camus peste I wonder if you would enjoy the little commentary on Camus's Plague that I wrote, in view of a pamphlet [Alber.. 1967/08/11 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 275] Carl Amery Capitulation: The Lesson of German Catholicism Finished Carl Amery's Capitulation. One of the best things I had read on modern Catholicism as it is - in its .. 1967/08/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 206] John Howard Griffin Black Like Me I am looking for a photograph, taken by John Howard Griffin, the one who chemically changed the color of his s.. 1967/08/14 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 82] Laurens Post, van der Dark Eye in Africa: Politics, Psychology I read Laurens Van Der Post's book The Dark Eye in A. some years ago and was very impressed by it. He has many.. 1967/08/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 281] William Faulkner As I lay dying Reading on "Bantu Prophets," i.e. the Nativistic Church split-offs in S. Africa. But above all Faulkner's As .. 1967/08/22 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 281] William Faulkner Light in August Reading on "Bantu Prophets," i.e. the Nativistic Church split-offs in S. Africa. But above all Faulkner's As .. 1967/08/24 [Ltrs: CforT p. 283] Bengt Sundkler Bantu Prophets in South Africa You are much in my thoughts as I continue my explorations of Bantu ideas. I have on interlibrary loan an essen.. 1967/08/30 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 283] George Orwell Politics and the English Language The Church now being finished there is no more noise of machines from the monastery. The woods are once again .. 1967/09/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 285] Claude Levi-Strauss Mythologiques I Began Claude Levi-Strauss Mythologiques I yesterday. Very exacting. Real new and stimulating beginning after m.. 1967/09/02 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 284-85] Peter Nabokov Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior Walked barefoot in a mossy spot under oaks and pines reading a new book of which a review copy came today - Tw.. 1967/09/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 174] Rosemary Haughton Transformation of Man Yes, I like the Rosemary Haughton book [The Transformation of Man]. I think it will really help. You are right.. 1967/09/18 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 292] John Paddock (ed.) Ancient Oaxaca: Discoveries in Mexican Archeology and History This time, finished Two Leggings - a rather sad, futile sort of book. With all his striving for powerful visio.. 1967/09/18 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 292] Peter Nabokov Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior This time, finished Two Leggings - a rather sad, futile sort of book. With all his striving for powerful visio.. 1967/09/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 234] David Jones Anathemata The David Jones Agenda is a real event and revelation. As I told you, I did not know him at all. This has me f.. 1967/09/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 235] David Jones Anathemata The books arrived yesterday. It is sheer joy to get back into Finnegans Wake again after all these years. The .. 1967/09/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 235] James Joyce Finnigans Wake The books arrived yesterday. It is sheer joy to get back into Finnegans Wake again after all these years. The .. 1967/09/30 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 295] Gaston Bachelard Poetique de l'espace I am beginning to get acquainted with G[aston] Bachelard (discovered him through David Kilburn at Birmingham U.. 1967/09/30 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 295] Gaston Bachelard Psychanalyse de Feu I am beginning to get acquainted with G[aston] Bachelard (discovered him through David Kilburn at Birmingham U.. 1967/10/01 [Ltrs: CforT p. 178] Alfonso Cortes Poema cotidiano I have received the package of your two latest books [Las puertas del pasatiempo and El poema cotidiano, both .. 1967/10/01 [Ltrs: CforT p. 178] Alfonso Cortes puertas del pasatiempo I have received the package of your two latest books [Las puertas del pasatiempo and El poema cotidiano, both .. 1967/10/02 [Honorable p. 146-47] Hugo M. Enomiya Lasalle Zen, Weg zu Erleuchtung I know the work of the Fathers you mention and have reviewed Fr. [H.M.] Enomiya[-Lasalle]'s book [Zen, Weg zur.. 1967/10/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 299] Claude Levi-Strauss cru et le cuit I am really most excited by the sophistication, versatility, scope, horizons of Levi-Strauss. In Le Cru et le .. 1967/10/07 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 299] Claude Levi-Strauss Pensee sauvage I am really most excited by the sophistication, versatility, scope, horizons of Levi-Strauss. In Le Cru et le .. 1967/10/08 [Jnl 6 ('66-'67) p. 300] Claude Levi-Strauss Pensee sauvage Compared with L.-S., Bachelard is flaccid and uninteresting, except for occasional intuitions. Levi-Strauss is.. 1967/10/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 3] Leonard Woolf Downhill Alle the Way. An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 Last evening at supper (wild rice, barbecued beans, knocked out my stomach) I read some of Leonard Woolf's Aut.. 1967/10/28 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 6] Nelson Reed Caste War of Yucatan Am absorbed and excited by Nelson Reed's book on The Caste War in Yucatan. It clicks perfectly with what I hav.. 1967/10/3 [Ltrs: HGL p. 166] James W. Douglas Non-Violent Cross: A Theology of Revolution and Peace I am doubly sorry for having delayed about your chapter"”the last one ["Christians and the Stat"] ... This la.. 1967/11/12 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 10] Kenelm Burridge Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium The Burridge book (Mambu) is excellent.. 1967/11/22 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 15] Boris Pasternak Letters to Georgian Friends / Translated by D. Magarshack Pasternak's Georgian letters are good. Real love for his friends, and contagious enthusiasm about Tiflis, etc... 1967/11/22 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 14] Hugo Rahner S.J. Man at Play Rain and mist all day for St. Cecilia [Feast day]. Hugo Rahner on the sacred dance in refectory. His book on M.. 1967/11/25 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 15] Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes tropiques / par C. Levi-Strauss With my meal I was reading Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques. The most "literary" and readable of his books. H.. 1967/11/28 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 18] Dorothy Emmett Nature of Metaphysical Thinking Today my usual routine was turned upside down-lately I have been intellectually overfed and in the mornings I .. 1967/12/10 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 23] John Lloyd Stephens Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Doris Dana sent the Stephens book on Travels in Yucatan and I began it. A fine work! Great reading... 1967/12/19 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 27] Matsuo Basho Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches / translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa Reading Basho again. Deeply moved by the purity and beauty of his travel notes and Haiku."All who have achiev.. 1967/12/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 295] Louis Zukofsky Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky Even in the woods you cannot have quiet unless you determine not to have a shadow anymore and not to cast any... 1967/12/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 32] George Steiner Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman I have [James] Mooney's wonderful Ghost Dance book finally and am reading the new George Steiner book [Languag.. 1967/12/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 32] James Mooney Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 I have [James] Mooney's wonderful Ghost Dance book finally and am reading the new George Steiner book [Languag.. 1967/12/31 [Ltrs: Ruether p. 97] Kenelm Burridge Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium Last time I wrote I forgot to tell you about two books which are essential for your course, if you haven't fou.. 1967/12/31 [Ltrs: Ruether p. 97] Peter Worsley Trumpet Shall Sound Last time I wrote I forgot to tell you about two books which are essential for your course, if you haven't fou.. 1968/01/04 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 32] Homer Iliad / Translated by Robert Fitzgerald You shall not die in the bluegrass land of A"¦.rather the gods intend you for Elysionwith golden Rhadamantho.. 1968/01/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 34] George Steiner Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman George Steiner's book Language and Silence is an important one and I can't read more than half a page without .. 1968/01/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 34] William Clark Styron Confessions of Nat Turner Nat Turner is nothing but Styron's own complex loneliness as a Southern writer. A well-fashioned book, but lit.. 1968/01/08 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 35] Boris Pasternak Letters to Georgian Friends / Translated by D. Magarshack I finished (Saturday and with additions yesterday) the short piece on Pasternak's Georgian Letters which Helen.. 1968/01/08 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 35] George Steiner Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman George Steiner on Marxist critics, etc. Still interesting, but not the best part of the book. Useful however... 1968/01/08 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 35] William Clark Styron Confessions of Nat Turner I finished (Saturday and with additions yesterday) the short piece on Pasternak's Georgian Letters which Helen.. 1968/01/10 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 37] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison Bonhoeffer says, "It is only when one sees the anger and wrath of God hanging like grim realities over the hea.. 1968/01/10 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 37] William Clark Styron Confessions of Nat Turner Yesterday I would have gone to town but it snowed, the roads were bad. I came back up and finished Nat Turner .. 1968/01/10 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 37] William Clark Styron Confessions of Nat Turner Bonhoeffer says, "It is only when one sees the anger and wrath of God hanging like grim realities over the hea.. 1968/01/11 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 39] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison Bonhoeffer: "Who stands his ground? Only the man for whom the ultimate criterion is not hisreason, his princip.. 1968/01/15 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 41] David Jones Anathemata Between ballots, the cloister full of people reading, I read long chunks of David Jones's Anathemata, somehow .. 1968/01/16 [Ltrs: HGL p. 66]   Cloud of Unknowing For about a year I have been giving conferences on Sufism here to the monks, based largely on books you sent m.. 1968/01/16 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 242] William Clark Styron Confessions of Nat Turner Also one thing I have done in the meantime is a review of Styron's Nat Turner, which strikes me as an affront... 1968/01/20 [Ltrs: HGL p. 640] Samuel Beckett More 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.. 1968/01/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 363] Reza Arasteh Final Integration in the Adult Personality: A Measure for Peace I do propose a review of what seems to me a most important book which most people will not run across easily. .. 1968/01/23 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 45] Reza Arasteh Final Integration in the Adult Personality: A Measure for Peace I am reading Reza Arasteh's fine book Final Integration and I think it brings a whole lot of threads together .. 1968/01/26 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 47] Martin Buber Ten Rungs I had Buber's Ten Rungs in my pocket and couldn't read a line of it, only looked at the sun, the dead grass, t.. 1968/02/12 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 55] Ronald Segal Race War I finished [Ronald] Segal's badly written but perceptive survey The Race War [New York: Viking, 1967]. It real.. 1968/02/13 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 55-56] Ian Jarvie Revolution in Anthropology I am really turned on by social anthropology and cargo cults. Jarvic's book The Revolution in Anthropology is,.. 1968/02/14 [Ltrs: SofC p. 365] A.J. (Arthur John) Arberry Sufism : an account of the mystics of Islam Actually I am getting a lot of questions about the discipline thing so I guess the best thing I can do is mime.. 1968/02/14 [Ltrs: SofC p. 365-66] Alan W. Watts Psychotherapy East and West Actually I am getting a lot of questions about the discipline thing so I guess the best thing I can do is mime.. 1968/02/25 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 58] Roderick Frazier Nash Wilderness & the American Mind Yesterday I wrote a short piece on Wilderness (the Nash book) in the afternoon. Importance of the "ecological .. 1968/02/26 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 59-60] Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term "Most important"¦to eliminate states of relaxation or inner emptiness, when innerresources are insufficient"¦... 1968/02/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 60] Carlos Fuentes Change of Skin Tried some books. Carlos Fuentes' Change of Skin, new, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux "”starts out lovely, fuzzy.. 1968/02/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 60] David Ignatow Rescue the dead : poems Tried some books. Carlos Fuentes' Change of Skin, new, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux "”starts out lovely, fuzzy.. 1968/02/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 60] Robert Eduard Duncan Bending the Bow Tried some books. Carlos Fuentes' Change of Skin, new, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux "”starts out lovely, fuzzy.. 1968/03/04 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 61] Peter Lawrence Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District Finished Peter Lawrence on Cargo (chiefly Yali), and realize I have to try to get some of this on paper soon... 1968/03/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 70] Reza Arasteh Final Integration in the Adult Personality: A Measure for Peace This afternoon, because of the rain, no workmen came, and I took advantage of the quiet to write my review of .. 1968/03/23 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 71] William Blake Complete writings : with all the variant readings / William Blake ; ed. by Geoffrey Keynes And Anitharmon named the Female, Jerusalem the holyWond'ring she saw the Lamb of God within VeilThe divine V.. 1968/03/26 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 72] Hugo Rahner Theology of Proclamation / Translated from the German: Eine Theologie der Verkündigung And then Hugo Rahner. I have read bits of a new book (Theology of Proclamation). But I come to this:"Through .. 1968/03/26 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 72] Thomas J.J. Altizer New Apocalyps: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake And then Hugo Rahner. I have read bits of a new book (Theology of Proclamation). But I come to this:"Through .. 1968/03/28 [Ltrs: HGL p. 119] Zenkei Shibayama flower does not talk / Zenkei Shibayama ; transl. by Sumiko Kudo ; with an introd. by Daisetz T. Suzuki. Thanks for your very good letter. It took some time for your own Shibayama book [Zenkei Shibayama, A Flower Do.. 1968/03/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 74] B.F. Skinner Walden Two I have given up on Hugo Rahner's Theology of Prodamation and on Skinner's Walden Two"”I see the "importanc" o.. 1968/03/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 74] Hugo Rahner Theology of Proclamation / Translated from the German: Eine Theologie der Verkündigung I have given up on Hugo Rahner's Theology of Prodamation and on Skinner's Walden Two"”I see the "importanc" o.. 1968/03/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 74] John Cohen (ed.) Essential Lenny Bruce I have given up on Hugo Rahner's Theology of Prodamation and on Skinner's Walden Two"”I see the "importanc" o.. 1968/04/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 364] Morris Ernst Teacher / editor I get such a quantity of letters that it is not possible to answer even half of them. When it comes to request.. 1968/04/09 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 365] Carl Amery Capitulation: The Lesson of German Catholicism I think you are right when you say that Catholic spirituality has been too individualistic. That is just anoth.. 1968/04/13 [Ltrs: SofC p. 376] Henry Corbin Histoire de la philosophie islamique. Des origines jusqu'à la mort d'Averroës (595-1198) / In collaboration with Seyyed Hosseîn Nasr et Osman Yahya Getting back to my own active life: one thing I can do for your ecumenical section is at least to review more .. 1968/04/16 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 81] Italo Svevo Confessions of Zeno / translation of La Coscienza di Zeno 1923 Easter Day, grey and stuffy, ended in thunderstorms while I was having supper (and reading the Confessions of .. 1968/04/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 82] Ashtavakra Ashtavakra gita / Ashtavakra ; transl. by Hari Prasad Shastri Reading a good book by Nasr on Islam. And this afternoon, in the sun, out on the quiet bottom by the creek, be.. 1968/04/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 82] John Cohen (ed.) Essential Lenny Bruce Last evening at supper I finished Lenny Bruce. Sometimes he is really inspired"” sometimes just dull. And, tho.. 1968/04/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 82] Sigmund Freud Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud ; transl. by Joan Riviere Last evening at supper I finished Lenny Bruce. Sometimes he is really inspired"” sometimes just dull. And, tho.. 1968/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 114] Richard S.Y. Chi Last of the Patriarchs: The Recorded Sayings of Shen-Hui It may interest some of you to know that I have recently had a chance to write an introduction to an important.. 1968/05/01 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 92] Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve Port Royal The priest, Monsieur de Sainte Martre, he went sneaking out from Paris by night, along the wall of Port Royal .. 1968/05/01 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 92] Georges Poulet Studies in Human Time Three dreams of Descartes are central in his philosophy. They have a religious importance. The God of Descarte.. 1968/05/01 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 93] Georges Poulet Studies in Human Time Pascal said, "It is the joy of having found God which is the source of the sorrow of having offended Him."Pa.. 1968/05/05 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 173-74] Mary Daly Church and the Second Sex It took some time for Mary Daly's book [The Church and the Second Sex] to reach me. However, I am reading it n.. 1968/05/06 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 95-96] Alfred Stern Sartre, His Philosophy and Existential Psychoanalysis A. Stern says of Sartre, "Each philosopher can only give the truth of his ownexistence. That is to say, philos.. 1968/05/06 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 94] Ashtavakra Ashtavakra gita / Ashtavakra ; transl. by Hari Prasad Shastri O'Hare, big fish with tail fins elevated in light smog One leaves earth. "Not seeing, he appears to see." (Ast.. 1968/05/14 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 100] priest Sylvester Domostroy Lecture edifiante [edifying reading]. The Russian priest Sylvester wrote a famous book called the Domostroy. T.. 1968/05/16 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 103]   Bhagavad Gita Technology as Karma. What can be done has to be done. The burden of possibility that has to be fulfilled, poss.. 1968/05/16 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 103] Ashtavakra Ashtavakra gita / Ashtavakra ; transl. by Hari Prasad Shastri Technology as Karma. What can be done has to be done. The burden of possibility that has to be fulfilled, poss.. 1968/05/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 106-07] Rene Daumal Mount Analogue This morning I began looking at the copy of [Rene] Daumal's Mount Analogue, which Ferlinghetti just published .. 1968/05/20 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 107] Rene Daumal Mount Analogue Evening. Sun setting over Memphis Airport. I have come in a slow prop plane over flooded Arkansas country from.. 1968/05/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 118] Andre Ravier S.J. Mystique et les mystiques Reading first part of a book on Sartre which I abandoned, and then bits of [Andre] Ravier La Mystique et les m.. 1968/05/24 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 121] Peter Nabokov Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior Sunday"”Peter Nabokov (whose book Two Leggings I reviewed) showed up with a Puerto Rican priest and a Christia.. 1968/05/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 113] Shin'ishi Hisamatsu On Mutually Going Into the Matter of Self / translated by Gishin Tokiwa Hisamatsu: natural, rational and Zen spontaneity. "This is true self," he says, "going beneath spontaneity.".. 1968/06/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 125] Herbert Marcuse One-dimensional man : studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society / by Herbert Marcuse I am about finished with Marcuse's One Dimensional Man "” a good and important book. It was sent by the Asphod.. 1968/06/15 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 130] Rene Char Rene Char. Presentation par Pierre Guerre. Choix de textes, bibliographie, portraits, fac-similes I got home and shaved on the porch and had my one meal about 3:30 p.m. Then fell on the bed in a stupor, slept.. 1968/06/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 134] Frantz Fanon Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon ; transl. by Charles Lam Markmann I am reading [Frantz] Fanon's Black Skins, White Masks"”a really extraordinary book. From every point of view".. 1968/06/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 135] Shantideva Way of the Boddhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara I am spending the afternoon reading Santi Deva in the woods near the hermitage - the oak grove to the SW. A co.. 1968/06/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 134] Vance Packard Naked Society Also reading Vance Packard's Naked Society"”timely enough! The new crime bill now permits all kinds of bugging.. 1968/07/01 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 136] Friedrich Heiler Prayer: A Study in the History and Psychology of Religion Very hot. One of the hottest days I can remember here. Clammy and stuffy"”but with a breez"”even though hot"”i.. 1968/07/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 138] Brother Antoninus Poet is Dead: A Memorial for Robinson Jeffers / pseudonym of William Everson New Directions sent me Bro. Antoninus's book on Jeffers. I began reading it immediately, on account of the coa.. 1968/07/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 136] Frantz Fanon Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon ; transl. by Charles Lam Markmann Yesterday I finished Fanon's intelligent, well-written, eminently true book Black Skins, White Masks. Written .. 1968/07/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 136] Søren Kierkegaard Attack upon Christendom Today I begin Kierkegaard's Attack upon Christendom. A fascinating and deeply disturbing book. All very well t.. 1968/07/09 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 140] Darcy O'Brien Conscience of James Joyce Went and lay down dopey for ½ hour, then got up and looked for something new. So Darcy O'Brien on The Conscie.. 1968/07/09 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 140] Gordon Leff Heresy in the Later Middle Ages: The Relation of Heterodoxy to Dissent c.1250 - c.1450 Strange thing, this morning: after Mass (St. Albert"”hermit) [Feast Day], and coffee and light breakfast and a.. 1968/07/12 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 141] Darcy O'Brien Conscience of James Joyce The Darcy O'Brien book on Joyce is simply pathetic. The man seems to have no conception of what Joyce is all a.. 1968/07/12 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 141] Friedrich Heiler Prayer: A Study in the History and Psychology of Religion I am also disappointed in Heiler on Prayer with his black-and-white division of mysticism (bad-quietistic"”wor.. 1968/07/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 162] Ernesto Cardenal Mayapan Your Mayapan [long poem] is fine. I am doing some things like that now in a poem. I'll send you bits when they.. 1968/07/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 144] James Joyce Dubliners I went to concelebration but fell asleep. Fr. Anastasius preached against false prophets-known by pride and re.. 1968/07/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 144] James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I went to concelebration but fell asleep. Fr. Anastasius preached against false prophets-known by pride and re.. 1968/07/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 144] James Joyce Ulysses I went to concelebration but fell asleep. Fr. Anastasius preached against false prophets-known by pride and re.. 1968/07/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 147]   Dhammapada I am working on my Joyce review article for the Sewanee. Some of the things said in two of the books (Darcy O'.. 1968/07/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 147] Darcy O'Brien Conscience of James Joyce I am working on my Joyce review article for the Sewanee. Some of the things said in two of the books (Darcy O'.. 1968/07/29 [Ltrs: HGL p. 648] James Joyce Dubliners 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 Joyce Ulysses Am giving talks on Joyce to the brethren now. I regret anything I may have said that suggested Beckett's stori.. 1968/07/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 147] Virginia Moseley Joyce and the Bible I am working on my Joyce review article for the Sewanee. Some of the things said in two of the books (Darcy O'.. 1968/0705 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 138] Søren Kierkegaard Attack upon Christendom Attack upon Christendom. How can one laugh and shudder at the same time? The book is so incontrovertibly true... 1968/08/03 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 352]   Dhammapada Certainly I want to meet Lal. Could I please have his address? I hope to land in Calcutta on an evening flight.. 1968/08/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 155] Cesare Pavese Among Women Only / translation of Tra donne sole Eating supper I finished Cesare Pavese's The House on the Hill. Marvelous writing! A beautiful book! Then I we.. 1968/08/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 155] Cesare Pavese House on the Hill / translation of La Casa in Collina Eating supper I finished Cesare Pavese's The House on the Hill. Marvelous writing! A beautiful book! Then I we.. 1968/08/18 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 155-156] Ghazali Delivrance de l'erreur Eating supper I finished Cesare Pavese's The House on the Hill. Marvelous writing! A beautiful book! Then I we.. 1968/08/20 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 156] Father Raymond Flanagan O.C.S.O. Relax and Rejoice I regret less some of the recent poetry, and especially Cables and Lograire. I wish I had done more creative w.. 1968/08/27 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 161] Roland Barthes Last Happy Writer Fine bright day. Reading the German book by Schumann on Indonesian Mysticism"” lent me by Soedjatmoko. It is v.. 1968/09/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 163] Amadee Hallier Monastic Theology of Aelred of Rievaulx: An Experimental Theology Yesterday I finished the preface to [Amadee] Hallier's Aelred [of Rievaulx]. Today I finished the first draft .. 1968/09/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 164] Chogyam Trungpa Born in Tibet I am trying to finish reading of important books I can't take with me. Absorbed by Chogyam Trungpa's Born in T.. 1968/09/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 164] Robert Charles Zaehner At Sundry Times I am trying to finish reading of important books I can't take with me. Absorbed by Chogyam Trungpa's Born in T.. 1968/09/09 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 167] Robinson Jeffers Selected Poems And then (10:15) for some unknown reason Is it up late reading Robinson Jeffers, that Pacific Blake, and he is.. 1968/09/11 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 171]   Tibetan Book of Dead / compiled and edited by Walter Yeeling-Evans-Wenz So now that lies under the dirty [indecipherable] sludge of clouds, the blue sea full of drifting snow, cloud-.. 1968/09/17 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 179]   Tibetan Book of Dead / compiled and edited by Walter Yeeling-Evans-Wenz Bardo Thodol"”your own true nature confronts you as Pure Truth, "subtle, sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious.. 1968/09/17 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 180] George Wickes Lawrence Durrell & Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence I borrowed the letters of Miller and Durrell [Note 3: Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller. A Private Corresponde.. 1968/09/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 187-88] Vladimir Lossky À l'Image et à la Ressemblance de Dieu "One will understand the extent to which the anthropological realities of our everyday experiences are deforme.. 1968/10/02 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 196-97] Hermann Hesse Journey to the East / translation of Die Morgenlandfahrt by Hilda Rosner "My own journey and life-goal which had colored my dreams since late boyhood was to see the beautiful Princess.. 1968/10/02 [Jnl 5 ('63-'65) p. 20-21] Martin Lings Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy Yesterday afternoon I finished a remarkable book [Martin Lings, A Moslem Saint of the Twentieth Century, 1961].. 1968/10/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 198] Hermann Hesse Journey to the East / translation of Die Morgenlandfahrt by Hilda Rosner Then there was Portland (where we were not supposed to be) and the plane filled up and I finished Hermann Hess.. 1968/10/15 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 206] Anne Marie Esnoul Ramanuja et la mystique vishnouite Hrishikesa, destroyer of Titans, ogres and canailles [scoundrels], [Note 1: It appears that Merton was reading.. 1968/10/15 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 209] Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Long, long noon. Endless noon. Like Alaska in midsummer. In San Francisco it has long been dark. It is nearly .. 1968/10/15 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 205-06] W.Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz Tibetan yoga and secret doctrines : or, Seven books of wisdom of the great path, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering / W.Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz ; arr. and ed. with introd. and annot. to serve as a commentary by W. Y. E I am going home, to the home where I have never been in this body, where I have never been in this washable su.. 1968/10/17 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 212] Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno Wisdom Develops Samadhi / translated from Thai by Bhikkhu Pannavaddho The Thai Buddhist concept of sila, the "control of outgoing exuberance," is basic, somewhat like the Javanese.. 1968/10/18 [Ltrs: CforT p. 272] Chogyam Trungpa Born in Tibet I am suggesting to a friend of mine, a Tibetan Lama, that he might send you a manuscript he is preparing [Born.. 1968/10/20 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 217] Milarepa Sixty songs of Milarepa / transl. by Garma C.C. Chang ; select. and introd. by Bikkhu Khantipalo I have been reading the poetry of Milarepa, the great Tibetan yogi, who was born in 1052. "Repa""”"clad in on.. 1968/10/26 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 223] Sankaracharya Crest-Jewel of Discrimination Sankaracharya [Note 28: Sankaracharya. one of the most important Hindu theologians, lived in India in the eigh.. 1968/10/27 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 226] Phra Sasanasobhon (ed.) His Majesty King Rama the fourth Mongkut And amid all this, a pure gem: the little book on King Rama IV Mongkut, Bhikkhu, Abbot of Wat Bovoranives, the.. 1968/10/28 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 227]   Tibetan Book of Dead / compiled and edited by Walter Yeeling-Evans-Wenz "Therefore have no fears, have no terror of that deep blue light of dazzling, terrible and awful splendour, si.. 1968/10/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 227] Armand Desjardins Message des Tibetains I have much to read: [Giuseppe] Tucci's The Theory and Practice of the Mandala [London, 1969], [Armand] Desjar.. 1968/10/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 227] Giuseppe Tucci Theory and Practice of the Mandala I have much to read: [Giuseppe] Tucci's The Theory and Practice of the Mandala [London, 1969], [Armand] Desjar.. 1968/11/02 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 240] Giuseppe Tucci Theory and Practice of the Mandala I talked to Sonam Kazi about the "child mind," which is recovered after experience. Innocenc"”to experienc"”t.. 1968/11/02 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 239] Surendranath Dasgupta Introduction to Tantric Buddhism "One is to attain enlightenment and become a Buddha only for the sake of others; it has therefore been said, â.. 1968/11/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 247] Milarepa Sixty songs of Milarepa / transl. by Garma C.C. Chang ; select. and introd. by Bikkhu Khantipalo "It is the tradition of the fortunate seekers never to be content with partial practice." (Milarepa).. 1968/11/03 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 248-49] Phra Sasanasobhon (ed.) His Majesty King Rama the fourth Mongkut Sankaracharya on the ego (from The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination): "When we say: ‘This man is that same Deva.. 1968/11/04 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 252] T.R.V. Murti Central Philosophy of Buddhism Murti on Madhyamika: "Its dialectic is of crucial importance. This dialectic is the consciousness of the total.. 1968/11/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 256] Edward C. Dimock and Denise Levertov In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali Here are some examples I like from the In Praise of Krishna anthology. The translations are by Professor Dimoc.. 1968/11/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 255-56] Edward C. Dimock and Denise Levertov In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali E. C. Dimock, Jr., on Vaishnava poetry: Vaishnava (Bengali) poetry originated in the Vaishnava bhakti sects of.. 1968/11/05 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 257-58] Sankaracharya Crest-Jewel of Discrimination Sankaracharya on brahman, the real samadhi, etc. (from The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination);"The knowledge that.. 1968/11/06 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 260] Marco Pallis Is There Room for 'Grace' in Buddhism? [Note 52: For this and the following quotes see Marco Pallis, "Is There Room for ‘Grace' in Buddhism?" in S.. 1968/11/07 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 264] Dalai Lama Introduction to Buddhism "Know the sufferings although there is nothing to know; relinquish the causes of misery although there is noth.. 1968/11/11 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 271] Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphoses "Exemploque pari furit omnis turba, suoque Marte cadunt subiti per mutua vulner a fraters.""The same madness.. 1968/11/15 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 276] Eduard Conze Buddhist Thought in India Conze comments on the fact that communication between East and West has not so far done much for philosophy. ".. 1968/11/17 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 281] Anaïs Nin Under a Glass Bell "Dear Father Merriton," said the note, "Please make yourself at home the moment you arrive and just ask the b.. 1968/11/17 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 281] Ruth Benedict Chrysanthemum and the Sword "Dear Father Merriton," said the note, "Please make yourself at home the moment you arrive and just ask the b.. 1968/11/19 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 287] Eduard Conze Buddhist Thought in India "True love requires contact with the truth, and the truth must be found in solitude. The ability to bear solit.. 1968/11/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 290] D.H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy "And the ice and the upper radiance of snow are brilliant with timeless immunityfrom the flux and warmth of li.. 1968/11/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 290] Eduard Conze Buddhist Thought in India I finished Murti at Mini. Also all I intend to read of Conze's Buddhist Thought in India, and Dr. [T: Y] Pemba.. 1968/11/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 290] T.R.V. Murti Central Philosophy of Buddhism I finished Murti at Mim. Also all I intend to read of Conze's Buddhist Thought in India, and Dr. [T: Y] Pemba'.. 1968/11/21 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 290] Tsewang Yishey Pemba Idols on the Path I finished Murti at Mini. Also all I intend to read of Conze's Buddhist Thought in India, and Dr. [T: Y] Pemba.. 1968/11/24 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 295] Bhakta Tukaram Poems of Tukaram Outside of the window of a Jesuit scripture scholar's cell, which has been loaned to me for the night, there i.. 1968/11/24 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 295-96] Jules Monchanin De l'esthetique à la mystique In his preface to a book by the Abbe [Jules] Monchanin, a Frenchman who became a hermit on the banks of the sa.. 1968/11/27 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 301] D.H. Lawrence Selected Poems / edited by J. Reeves I got Lawrence's Twilight in Italy in Darjeeling and now, here in Madras, a little way down Mount Road, a thin.. 1968/11/28 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 304] Arthur Koestler Lotus and the Robot Dr. Raghavan had had quite a bit to say about his guru, Sankaracharya of Kanchi, whom I have not met"”he is tr.. 1968/11/28 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 306] Surendranath Dasgupta Introduction to Tantric Buddhism Surendranath Dasgupta on idealism: The Ahirbudhnya Samhita is a post-Upanishadic work from the Vaishnava schoo.. 1968/11/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 306] D.H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy I read large chunks of Lawrence's Twilight in Italy and found it boring, especially the bit about the amateur .. 1968/11/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 309] Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fe Then I went into the Taprobane Hotel and got a bottle of Ceylonese beer which turned out to be fairly good, be.. 1968/11/29 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 307] Robert Knox Historical Relation of Zeilon "On the West the City of Columbo, so-called from a Tree the natives call Amba (which bears the mango fruit) gr.. 1968/11/30 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 311] Robert Knox Historical Relation of Zeilon Anything going to or coming from the King of Kandy is held sacred, says Knox, and the people move aside out of.. 1968/12/06 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 325] Herman Hesse Steppenwolf "Most men will not swim before they are able to." [Note 84: Novalis, as quoted with approval by Hesse's Stepp.. 1968/12/06 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 326] Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts "They had run out of seashells and were using faded photographs, soiled fans, timetables, playing cards, broke.. 1968/12/07 [Jnl 7 ('67-'68) p. 327] Herman Hesse Steppenwolf "The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to..