| Author Quoted | William Faulkner |
| Title Quoted | Wild Palms |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/01/24 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1939I |
| Quotation | Sunday was Septuagesima. I am giving talks on Faulkner still ("Old Man") and rereading the whole of Wild Palms. Also writing my piece for a Panichas book (Mansions of the Spirit) of which I have a Xerox here. Some fine things in it. This morning I finished the [Georges] Florovsky essay. Which explains perhaps why I never could get into Tolstoy. But it also makes me see that the negative and inconclusive radicalism of Tolstoy could be a danger for me too. Except that I am very different from him. |
| Quotation Source | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 187 |
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