xt7k9882nx7g https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7k9882nx7g/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1966-10-18 This letter is from 2006ms071, the Thomas Merton collection. archival material 2006ms071 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Thomas Merton correspondence Letter from Thomas Merton to Richard Tobin, October 18, 1966 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Richard Tobin, October 18, 1966 1966 1966-10-18 2023 true xt7k9882nx7g section xt7k9882nx7g ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI TRAPWST KENTUCKY 40073

Cct. 18,1966

Dear Richard Tobin:

Shanks for your letter. I don't quite Lnow how to go about the
uronosition. When Thich Nhat flanh was here I had something very
definite to go on. But your suggestion is extremely general.also
I can't comment on specific news events as I cannot follow the day by da
news.

One idea I had the other day—— I already suggested it to
~rpers but they may not want it: there is a wonderful snort
'ece of Camus, a soeecn of the klague (personified) to his
subjects" (Victims). me used it in a wlay about the Plague (not the
novel). It runs about lOOfi words. I t lught of translating it and
just adding a short commentary of my own, or rather refacing it with
such a COunentary, tying it in witn our current situation.

Or perhaps I could write a concise anoreciation of the vamusian
position (”Ieither victim nor executioner"; which Nhat Hanh and I
share. It is the difficult middle way whicn seems so inefficient to
oragmatist .

fidanks for your suggestion, in any case.

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Cordially,

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