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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: I must have gumption to jump at it
Description: The journals of Thomas Merton October 12, 1958 Boris Pasternak Dr Zhivago “My Zen is in the slow swinging tops of sixteen pine trees “the meaninglessness of any life that is not lived in the face of death” Zen Suzuki “God has put me” “what am I here for” asceticism humanism solitude “do things my way”