| Author Quoted | Paul Philippe O.P. |
| Title Quoted | Très Sainte Vierge et le Sacerdoce |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/08/11 |
| Imprint | Paris : Cerf. 1947 |
| Quotation | To my great joy, Fr. Paul Philippe's book, La Très Sainte Vierge et le Sacerdoce [Paris, 1947] arrived the day before yesterday: that was the other thing that made me joyful besides Dom Porion's letter. There were four copies of the book and I began it at once. It is short but I have to read slowly. I can't read more than three paragraphs of anything without stopping. If I read fast and go right on, I get confused and my mind simply ceases to grasp anything, and in half an hour I am exhausted and worried, as if I had been roughed up in a dark alley by a gang of robbers. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 353 |
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