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19 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., pp. 192-93.
20 Described by Merton as “a confrontation of twentieth-century questions” in his journal of these years. Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), p. vi.
21 Poem transcribed by Patrick F. O’Connell in his essay “Sunken Islands: Two and One-Fifth Unpublished Merton Poems,” The Merton Seasonal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 1987), pp. 6-7. He discovered it in the Curtis Brown Archives of the Friedsam Memorial Library at St. Bonaventure University.
22 In one of his books, he had already pointed out: “To say I was born in sin is to say […] I came into existence under a sign of contradiction.” Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, op. cit., p. 33.
23 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., pp. 231-232.
24 Bonnie B. Thurston, “Zen Influence on Thomas Merton’s View of the Self,” The Merton Annual, Vol. 1 (1988), pp. 17-31.
25 Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, op. cit., p. 7.