The monk's record player : Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the perilous summer of 1966 /
"In 1965 Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year-old dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Sunday, March 6, 1966
- Part one. Utopian hermit monk (April 1941 to August 1965)
- A new man
- Manuscript accepted
- The call to solitude
- This little house
- Dylan interlude no. 1: Bringing it all back home
- Part two. She speaks like silence (March to July 1966)
- The invented backbone
- Silver dagger
- The absurd man
- The soundtrack
- Dylan interlude no. 2: I do believe I've had enough
- Part three. The lonesome sparrow sings (July 1966 to October 1968)
- Sort of a Bob Dylan thing
- The American Villon
- A new consciousness
- Prophetic voices
- Dylan interlude no. 3: Join the monk
- Ascension
- Epilogue.
