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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: Reading Merton in our solitude
Description: The Journals of Thomas Merton November 5, 1965 drug mysticism traffic: peace movement political church “consciousness-altering” zen monastic reform Four Quartets Rilke Duino Elegies Lorca Neruda Cambridge young and healthy arthritic hip “no answer” Ramadan Moslems 1965 Intimate Merton Hart Montaldo