Evan’s Reviews > The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton > Status Update

Well, it has been quite a journey with Father Louis/Thomas Merton and on the homestretch now.

Coretta Scott King confirms meeting with Martin Luther King with Merton sometime after his visit to Memphis. Alas... Can you imagine? Fuck it all.

"The quiet of the hermitage is good. The sound of the jazz was good. In between -- a vast morass of nonsense..."
Bless you Thomas Merton for this, you fucking boss.

Resumed reading after a week of distraction. Merton's latter years much more interesting to me than the rest. Only 80 more pages in this edition to go. This guy traipsed all over my neck of the woods; even had a doctor located a mile from me.

Tommy has his ill-fated bad boy episode of lovesick cringe. We are almost done here.

Crazy that I worked for two decades just a few yards from the university art library and went there on some occasions, and now come to find from this book that Merton once visited and studied there. I had no idea.