| Author Quoted | Samuel Beckett |
| Title Quoted | Waiting for Godot |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/09/05 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1953 |
| Quotation | I am working on another longer series of short ones ["Edifying Cables," published as Cables to the Ace] which might interest you. Maybe you will feel it does not communicate: it is imprecise, noisy, crude, full of vulgarity and parody, making faces, criticizing and so on, and not like what you are doing at all, in fact almost the exact opposite. Of Beckett I like very much Waiting for Godot and think it says a lot. The others I can't read for more than a few pages. But I like Ionesco a great deal. |
| Quotation Source | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 248-49 |
| Letter to | Cid Corman |
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