What treasures lie buried in the “vasty deep” of cyberspace!<\/p>\n
I just now discovered MANAS Journal<\/a>. I was on the prowl for an online comparison of John Tettemer and Thomas Merton. I finally found something in volume 5 , no. 39, September 24, 1952 of the aforementioned journal. Scroll down a bit for a review<\/a> of Tettemer’s autobiographical\u00a0 I Was a Monk<\/strong>, 1951, entitled “In and Out of Rome.” The writer is presumably the editor of MANAS, Henry Geiger.\u00a0 Near the end, Geiger offers a brief comparison of Tettemer’s book with\u00a0 Merton’s autobiographical 1948 Seven Storey Mountain.<\/strong><\/p>\n These two fascinating characters deserve an extended comparative study. No surprise there isn’t one, Tettemer being\u00a0 pretty much forgotten except for aficionados of the arcane and the neglected such as your humble correspondent. His mind drifts back to the ’90s and\u00a0 solo backpacking trips into the Sierra Nevada above Bishop, California and nights in the tent reading Tettemer by flashlight at 12,000 feet.\u00a0 Solitude and high mountains make for deep thoughts.\u00a0 Being alone prevents self-loss into the social and sharpens the sense of the mystery of things.<\/p>\n For more on Tettemer see the Wikipedia entry<\/a>, and here<\/a> is a more personal response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What treasures lie buried in the “vasty deep” of cyberspace! I just now discovered MANAS Journal. I was on the prowl for an online comparison of John Tettemer and Thomas Merton. I finally found something in volume 5 , no. 39, September 24, 1952 of the aforementioned journal. Scroll down a bit for a review … Continue reading “John Tettemer and Thomas Merton”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,358,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merton-thomas","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}