| Author Quoted | D.H. Lawrence |
| Title Quoted | Twilight in Italy |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/11/29 |
| Imprint | New York : Viking. Compass Books, 1962 |
| Quotation | I read large chunks of Lawrence's Twilight in Italy and found it boring, especially the bit about the amateur dramatics. It's not a good book, barely interesting, though occasionally he'll have an intuition that makes sense-such as, self and not-self. The "selfless" world of the machine. A good angle. Are we really heading for a kind of technological corruption of Buddhism? A secular nirvana? |
| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 306 |
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