NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
1. Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Columbia, CS 8905, 1964), side 1, track 1.
2. Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 318.
3. Pope Francis I, “Address of the Holy Father,” Libreria Editrice Vaticana, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/september/documents/papa-francesco_20150924_usa-us-congress.html.
4. Eleanor Wachtel, “Christopher Ricks on Why Bob Dylan Is ‘the Greatest Living User of the English Language,’” CBC Radio (October 16, 2016), http://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/christopher-ricks-on-why-bob-dylan-is-the-greatest-living-user-of-the-english-language-1.3803292.
5. Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, ed. David D. Cooper (New York: Norton, 1997), 299.
6. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 129 (emphasis in original).
7. Robert Bly, The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood (New York: Vintage, 1996), 26.
8. Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2010), 209.
9. Bob Dylan, Press Conference, London Airport, April 26, 1965. D. A. Pennebaker, Dont Look Back, DVD (Docurama NVG 9824, 2007); transcribed in Dont Look Back: A Film and Book by D. A. Pennebaker (New York: Ballantine, 1968), 21.
10. Dont Look Back was chosen for preservation by the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 1998 and ranked best rock documentary of all time by Rolling Stone magazine: “40 Greatest Rock Documentaries,” August 14, 2014, http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/40-greatest-rock-documentaries-20140815/dont-look-back-1967-20140815.
11. Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Life: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Five, 1963–1965, ed. Robert E. Daggy (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 36.
12. J5, 210.
13. WBAI-FM Studios, New York, Broadside Radio Show interview, recorded May 1962. Bob Dylan, The Great White Wonder bootleg LP (unofficial recording, 1969), side 3, track 2.
14. Nat Hentoff and Bob Dylan, “The Playboy Interview: Bob Dylan,” Playboy, vol. 13, no. 3 (March 1966): 41–46. The three albums are Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde.
15. Dylan provided the art for Self Portrait, Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks (original printing, back cover), and The Bootleg Series, Volume 10: Another Self Portrait, and he painted the cover for the Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink.
16. F. Douglas Scutchfield and Paul Holbrook Jr., eds., The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2014), 199.
17. John Howard Griffin, Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1993), 2–3.
18. See Paul M. Pearson, Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton (New York: Paulist Press, 2017).
19. Walt Whitman, “Myself and Mine,” in Whitman: Poetry and Prose (New York: Library of America, 1982), 380.
20. Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1958), 84–85.
21. Bob Dylan, “Interview with Nora Ephron and Susan Edmiston, Positively Tie Dream: August 1965,” in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Wenner, 2006), 50.
22. According to the notes on the Lenny Bruce CD collection Live at the Curran Theater, the comic frequented Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco after his shows because it was the only place open. There he found Merton’s poem “Chant to Be Used in Processions around a Site with Furnaces” in volume 1 of Ferlinghetti’s Journal for the Protection of All Beings (1961). Bruce adapted lines from it to create a new piece that began “My Name Is Adolf Eichmann.” Merton’s “Chant” is a portrait of the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, who was hanged as a war criminal in 1947. Bruce recast it in Eichmann’s voice because the Nazi bureaucrat had been tried and executed in Israel in 1962, and Hannah Arendt’s controversial 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem had kept his name in the news. For Merton’s poem, see The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1977), 345–49. Bruce’s piece is in John Cohen, ed., The Essential Lenny Bruce (New York: Bell, 1970), 229–30. For an audio recording of Bruce reciting “My Name Is Adolf Eichmann,” see Lenny Bruce, Let the Buyer Beware, 6 CDs (Shout! Factory, DK 37109, 2004), disc 6, track 14.
23. Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (New York: Broadway Books, 2008), 261–62.
24. Bob Dylan, “7 February 1986, Stuart Coupe Interview, Regent Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand,” Every Mind Polluting Word, http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1plqd/BobDylanEveryMindPol/resources/765.htm, 932. This is the full quotation: “Yeah, I saw [Lenny Bruce] perform in the early sixties, around 1963, before he got caught up in all that legal stuff.”
25. Dylan later wrote a song called “Lenny Bruce,” in which he states he once shared a taxi ride with Bruce. The song was released on Shot of Love, LP (Columbia, TC 37496, 1981), side 1, track 4.
26. Bob Dylan, “Desolation Row,” Highway 61 Revisited, LP (Columbia CS 9189, 1965), side 2, track 4.
27. Bob Dylan, “Gates of Eden,” Bringing It All Back Home, LP (Columbia CS 9128, 1965), side 2, track 2.
28. The database of Dylan interviews, Every Mind Polluting Word, contains 1,384 pages; it contains no references to Merton; http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1plqd/BobDylanEveryMindPol/resources/765.htm.
29. These can be found in the volume Learning to Love.
30. Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), xv.
NOTES TO THE PROLOGUE
1. Although Merton writes that he watched the full moon rise the previous evening, Saturday, March 5, the meteorological charts record that the full moon actually rose on Monday, March 7. Merton doesn’t specify when he watched the deer on Sunday, March 6, other than it was in the evening. It must have been light enough to watch them from a distance, and since the sun set at 6:40 p.m., it would have taken place between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. This prologue is based on Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 25.
2. J6, 18.
3. J6, 25.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
1. This sign language faded from use during Merton’s time at Gethsemani.
2. Adapted from “The Daily Schedule at Gethsemani During the 1940s,” in Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Two, 1941–1952, ed. Jonathan Montaldo (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 489.
3. Thomas Merton, Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume One, 1939–1941, ed. Patrick Hart (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 334ff.
4. J2, 355.
5. Dom Frederic Dunne (1874–1948) was the first American-born Trappist abbot.
6. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948), 316, 318.
7. The Rule of Saint Benedict, chapter 6, paragraph 3.
8. Robert Giroux, “Introduction,” in Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, Brace, 1998), xiii.
9. Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1960), 4, 23 (emphasis in original).
10. Exodus 3:1, 4, Douay-Rheims (1899).
11. J1, 333.
12. Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters on Religious Experience and Social Concerns, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985), 3.
13. J1, 326.
14. The Seven Storey Mountain, 371.
15. Thomas Merton, The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959), 183.
16. J2, 3.
17. Thomas Merton, Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Three, 1952–1960, ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 293.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
1. Thomas Merton, “For My Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943,” in The Seven Storey Mountain (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948), 404.
2. Rule of Saint Benedict, chapter 2, paragraphs 16–17.
3. Robert Giroux, The Education of an Editor (New York: Bowker, 1982), 30.
4. Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1953), 110.
5. Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Two, 1941–1952, ed. Jonathan Montaldo (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 34.
6. J2, 34.
7. J2, 63.
8. The woman and the child are thought to have died in the London blitz during the war.
9. Augustine, Confessions, Book 4, section 2. Augustine was seventeen years old when his son, Adeodatus (“Gift of God”), was born.
10. J2, 187–88 (emphasis in original).
11. J2, 98.
12. J2, 98.
13. J2, 128.
14. J2, 129.
15. J2, 141.
16. J2, 328. The abbot at this point was Dom James Fox.
17. J2, 328.
18. J2, 329.
19. J2, 329.
20. Deuteronomy 34:4, Douay-Rheims (1899).
NOTES TO CHAPTER 3
1. Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953), 91.
2. Robert Giroux, “Introduction,” in Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, Brace, 1998), xvi. The NYT’s policy of not including religious book sales in the best-seller list didn’t change until the mid-1990s.
3. Garry Wills, Head and Heart: American Christianities (New York: Penguin, 2007), 457.
4. Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1960), 5.
5. Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 37, Part I, “Conversion of the Barbarians to Christianity” (London: Penguin, 1995 [1788]), 411.
6. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, vol. 2, chapter 4, “The Saints of the Desert” (New York: Appleton, 1869), 114.
7. The Wisdom of the Desert, 4.
8. Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Two, 1941–1952, ed. Jonathan Montaldo (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 222–23.
9. The Sign of Jonas, 90.
10. J2, 228.
11. J2, 228.
12. J2, 235.
13. J2, 235.
14. J2, 323.
15. J2, 324. Although Merton did not go to Rome, he eventually wrote the book about Bernard: The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1954).
16. Thomas Merton, Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Three, 1952–1960, ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 16.
17. J3, 36.
18. C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950–1963 (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007), 1305. This comment was in a December 20, 1961, letter to Dom Bede Griffiths, who had been a student of Lewis’s in the late 1920s and briefly corresponded with Merton in 1966. Like Merton, Griffiths became an important figure in exploring the connections between Eastern and Western spirituality.
19. Henry Weihoffen, “The Psychology of the Criminal Act and Punishment, by Gregory Zilboorg,” Indiana Law Journal, vol. 30, issue 2, article 9 (January 1, 1955): http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2609&context=ilj.
20. J3, 59.
21. Michael Mott (The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984], 291), among others, refers to Zilboorg’s having treated Ernest Hemingway, but I have doubts about the accuracy of that information. None of the major biographies of Hemingway mention Zilboorg.
22. Howard Pollack, George Gershwin: His Life and Work (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 208.
23. The details of Zilboorg’s possible misdiagnosis of Gershwin and his misrepresentation of his credentials are outlined in Mark Leffert’s article “The Psychoanalysis and Death of George Gershwin: An American Tragedy,” The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 39 (3) (Bloomfield, Conn.: AAPDP, 2011): 420–51. It should be noted that Zilboorg has his defenders, who claim that Gershwin’s symptoms did not present themselves until after he had completed his therapy with Zilboorg. Leffert, however, has collected evidence to suggest that Zilboorg may well have been aware of these symptoms.
24. Leffert, “The Psychoanalysis and Death of George Gershwin,” 420–51.
25. Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, 297. The bishop to whom Dom James addressed this letter was Giovanni Montini, who, in 1963, became Pope Paul VI, successor to Pope John XXIII.
26. Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, trans. Alan Tyson (New York: Norton, 1989 [1916]). Thank you to Dr. James Doherty for this insight.
27. J3, 59–60.
28. Thomas Merton, The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers, ed. Christine M. Bochen (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993), 122.
29. J3, 60.
30. Mott, Seven Mountains, 297.
31. Merton’s essay was posthumously published as “The Neurotic Personality in the Monastic Life,” in Robert E. Daggy, Patrick Hart, et al., eds., The Merton Annual, Volume 4 (New York: AMS Press, 1991), 5–19.
32. Merton, “The Neurotic Personality,” The Merton Annual, 6, 19.
33. Francis J. Braceland, “Gregory Zilboorg—A Memorial, 1891–1959,” American Journal of Psychiatry 116 (January 1, 1960): 672.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
1. Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 140.
2. Walnut is now Muhammad Ali Boulevard. The marker was presented to the city by the Thomas Merton Center Foundation.
3. “Thomas Merton (1915–68) (Marker Number: 2004),” Kentucky Historical Marker Database, https://archive.is/mv0JU.
4. Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 140, 141.
5. Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 142.
6. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 1961), 53.
7. Thomas Merton, Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Three, 1952–1960, ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 181–82.
8. T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” in The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), 197.
9. J3, 181, 182.
10. J3, 289.
11. J3, 297.
12. J3, 370–71.
13. The letters were posthumously published as Cold War Letters, ed. Christine M. Bochen and William H. Shannon (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2006).
14. Cold War Letters, 27.
15. James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (New York: Touchstone, 2008), 17–20.
16. Thomas Merton, The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), 166.
17. Thomas Merton, Turning Toward the World: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Four, 1960–1963, ed. Victor A. Kramer (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 6 (emphasis in original).
18. J4, 58 (emphasis in original).
19. J4, 63.
20. Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Life: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Five, 1963–1965, ed. Robert E. Daggy (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 151 (emphasis in original).
21. Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1960), 5.
22. J5, 153, 159.
23. Thomas Merton, “Solitary Life: A Life without Care (8/20/1965),” Thomas Merton on Contemplation, 4 CDs (Now You Know Media, 2014), disc 4, track 2.
24. J5, 286.
25. The building was square as originally built, with an overhanging eave, supported by three posts, over the front porch. A later extension to the left of the kitchen contained a small chapel and washroom.
26. Thomas Merton, Selected Essays (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2013), 237.
27. J5, 275. Merton is quoting Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age, trans. Alexander Dru (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 56. As it appears in Dancing in the Water of Life, the line incorrectly reads “. . . if he courageously drinks it . . .” rather than “. . . if he courageously desires it . . .” I suspect that whoever transcribed Merton’s handwritten journal mistook “desires” for “drinks.”
28. This performance is commercially available on the DVD The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963–1965, directed by Murray Lerner (Columbia Music Video, Legacy, 8869714466 9, 2007).
NOTES TO DYLAN INTERLUDE NO. 1
Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, LP (Columbia, CS 9128, 1965).
1. From a personal conversation with writer David Dalton, who attended the Dylan concert at Newport.
2. Video footage of four of the five songs Dylan performed is available on Bob Dylan, The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963–1965, directed by Murray Lerner, DVD (Columbia Music Video, Legacy, 8869714466 9, 2007). The missing song is the third and last one performed with the band: “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.” Audio of all five songs can be heard on Bob Dylan, 1965 Revisited, Vol. 6, 14 CDs (Great Dane, CD 9419/1–14, 1995).
3. Portions of Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s 1965 performance at Newport are on Murray Lerner’s documentary Festival! (Eagle Rock Entertainment, 2005).
4. Many of these details are from David Dann’s chronology: “Mike Bloomfield at Newport,” Mike Bloomfield: An American Guitarist, May 11, 2014, http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/newport.htm.
5. Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (Milwaukee: Backbeat, 2011), 256.
6. Bob Dylan in a 1987 Us magazine interview, quoted in Paul Williams, Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, 1986−1990 and Beyond: Mind Out of Time (London: Omnibus, 2004), 43.
7. Fifty years later, in his mid-sixties, Dylan began sporting a pencil mustache that looked suspiciously like Little Richard’s. In a Twitter interview, filmmaker John Waters, who also wears such a mustache, was asked what he thought of Dylan’s stealing his mustache. Waters replied, “He could steal my wallet and I wouldn’t be mad.” http://www.theguardian.com/stage/live/2014/nov/07/john-waters-webchat-carsick#block-5460bcbde4b0a13a737c127b.
8. Don McLean, “American Pie,” American Pie, LP (United Artist, UAS-5535, 1971), side 1, track 1. Coincidentally, Paul Griffin, who played piano at Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited sessions, also played piano on Don McLean’s “American Pie.”
9. Shelton, No Direction Home, 37.
10. Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (New York: Grove, 2001), 41.
11. Bobby Vee tells this story in an interview in Goldmine magazine: see “Elston Gunnn: Early Alias for Robert Zimmerman/Bob Dylan,” Expecting Rain.com, http://expectingrain.com/dok/who/g/gunnnelston.html.
12. Bob Dylan, in Ian Bell, Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan (New York: Pegasus, 2013), 414.
13. Bob Dylan, “13 June 1984: Robert Hilburn Interview, West Berlin,” Every Mind Polluting Word, 794, http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1plqd/BobDylanEveryMindPol/resources/794.htm. “Highway 51” was written by Curtis Jones and released in 1938.
14. Damien Cave et al., “Truck Driver Invents Rock,” Rolling Stone no. 951 (June 24, 2004), 84–85. “That’s Alright, Mama” is the only song to have been recorded in common by Elvis, the Beatles, and Dylan.
15. Three takes of “That’s Alright, Mama” and seven takes of “Mixed Up Confusion” were released on the 4-CD-R set: Bob Dylan, The 50th Anniversary Collection: The Copyright Extension Collection, Vol. 1 (Sony Music Europe 8876546022, 2012). One version of “Mixed Up Confusion” became Dylan’s first 45 rpm single release in December 1962.
16. Until thirty years later, that is. In the 1990s he recorded two throw-back albums of acoustic folk covers—Good as I Been to You (Columbia, CK 53200, 1992) and World Gone Wrong (Columbia, CK 57590, 1993).
17. Tim Riley, Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (New York: Knopf, 1992), 85.
18. Bob Dylan, “House of the Rising Sun” (1964 Tom Wilson overdub), Highway 61 Interactive CD-ROM (Columbia/Graphix Zone CDAC 085700, February 1995).
19. Although Dylan released “Mr. Tambourine Man” on Bringing It All Back Home (side 2, track 1), the Byrds based their version on an earlier unreleased take from the Another Side sessions. One hint of this is that the Byrds sing, “. . . there ain’t no place I’m going to . . . ,” just as Dylan does on the Another Side outtake. On the official Bringing version, Dylan sings, “. . . there is no place I’m going to . . .”
20. Although some writers state that neither Mayall nor Clapton was present, Clapton has stated in interviews that he was there; see Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited (New York: Morrow, 2001), 194. Heylin believes Mayall was the one who commented, “Haven’t worked much with bands, have ya?”
21. Bob Dylan, Thin Wild Mercury Music, CD (unofficial recording, Spank Records, SP-105, 1994), tracks 17–18.
22. Bob Dylan, interview with Martin Bronstein, February 20, 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the 4-CD set On the Crest of the Airwaves, Vol. 1 (Music Melon, MMLTDBOX12, 2012). In June 2014, forty-nine years after the lyrics were written, Dylan’s four-page manuscript of the first draft for “Like a Rolling Stone” sold at auction for two million dollars to an anonymous buyer.
23. Bob Dylan, “A Candid Conversation with the Iconoclastic Idol of the Folk-Rock Set,” interview with Nat Hentoff, Playboy (March 1966), in Jonathan Cott, ed., Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews (New York: Wenner, 2006), 97.
24. Rolling Stone magazine ranked “Like a Rolling Stone” number one in its list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” May 31, 2011.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
1. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 25.
2. Writer and Merton scholar Thérèse Lentfoehr, SDS (1902–1981), was in the Sisters of the Divine Savior, headquartered in Milwaukee. As a poet, she corresponded with Merton before he entered the monastery. She collected his manuscripts and eventually gave them to the Merton archives at Columbia University.
3. Thomas Merton, An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 3, ed. Patrick F. O’Connell (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2008), 122.
4. Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart’s Sermons, trans. Claud Field (New York: Cosimo, 2007 [1909]), 32.
5. Thomas Merton, The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers, ed. Christine M. Bochen (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993), 47.
6. Merton, The Courage for Truth, 47–48.
7. Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Life: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Five, 1963–1965, ed. Robert E. Daggy (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 291. Monica Weis in her book The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2011) devotes her afterword to Merton’s relationship with the deer. She counts twenty-two references to deer in his journals between 1963 and 1968 and refers to the sixteen references between January 1965 and June 1966 as “a symphony of meaning” (157–58).
8. Psalm 41:2; Pontifical Bible Institute, The Psalms: A Prayer Book (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947). This follows the Catholic numbering of the Psalms as given in the Septuagint and Vulgate; this psalm is number 42 in most Protestant Bibles.
9. J6, 25.
10. Thomas Merton, Praying the Psalms (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1956), 25.
11. Thomas Merton, Turning toward the World: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Four, 1960–1963, ed. Victor A. Kramer (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 235.
12. Isaac of Nineveh, Ascetic Treatises, quoted in Olivier Clément, The Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from the Patristic Era with Commentary (London: New City, 1993), 213.
13. Song of Solomon 2:9, Douay-Rheims (1899).
14. Thomas Merton, The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends, ed. Robert E. Daggy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), 203.
15. J6, 24.
16. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, trans. M. D. Herter Norton (New York: Norton, 1993 [1934]), 27. Although Merton read German with aids, this is most likely the translation he found in the university library.
17. J6, 31.
18. Thomas Merton, “With the World in My Blood Stream,” in In the Dark Before Dawn, ed. Lynn R. Szabo (New York: New Directions, 2005), 188.
19. J6, 32.
20. J6, 33.
21. Merton most likely took Claud Field’s translation to the hospital: Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (London: Allenson, 1909).
22. Thomas Merton, “First Lesson about Man,” in The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1977), 624–26.
23. St. Joseph’s Infirmary, run by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, was built on Preston Road, Louisville, in 1926 and torn down in the early 1980s, when its facilities were moved to what is now known as the Norton Audubon Hospital. The grotto and its adjacent garden still stand.
24. Thomas Merton, A Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Three, 1952–1960, ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 184.
25. Merton, “With the World in My Blood Stream,” in In the Dark Before Dawn, 188.
26. J6, 92.
27. Merton, “With the World in My Blood Stream,” in In the Dark Before Dawn, 188.
28. Thomas Merton, “Preface to the Japanese Edition of Thoughts in Solitude, March 1966,” in “Honorable Reader”: Reflections on My Work (New York: Crossroad, 1989), 112, 116.
29. Merton, “Preface,” in “Honorable Reader,” 118.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 6
1. Paul Wilkes, ed., Merton by Those Who Knew Him Best (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984), 3.
2. J6, 38.
3. J6, 77.
4. J6, 52.
5. J6, 52.
6. “The Menendez file” poems were published posthumously in a slipcased, limited edition of 250 copies nearly twenty years after they were written: Thomas Merton, Eighteen Poems (New York: New Directions, 1985). Thirteen of the poems are available in Thomas Merton, In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, ed. Lynn R. Szabo (New York: New Directions, 2005).
7. J6, 52–53.
8. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, scene 5, lines 93–110.
9. J6, 53.
10. J6, 81.
11. J6, 56.
12. Time magazine, cover story, November 23, 1962.
13. Jim Forest, Living with Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1991), 197.
14. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (New York: Random House, 2002 [1749]), 436.
15. Joan Baez, The Joan Baez Songbook (New York: Amsco Publications, 1964), 76–77. Public domain.
16. No one is sure where Merton listened to the Baez record that week. The library is possible, but so is the infirmary. A third location has also been suggested: a small brick building, referred to as the Red House, on the grounds just outside the infirmary. Each place had a record player with headphones. (The Red House has since been torn down.)
17. Joan Baez, Joan Baez (Vanguard, VSD 2070, 1960). The album was chosen for permanent archiving at the Library of Congress in 2015.
18. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 256.
19. J6, 305.
20. Joan Baez makes this comment before performing the song at the War Memorial Auditorium in Plymouth, Massachusetts, as part of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, on October 31, 1975; from The Rolling Thunder Revue: Plymouth 1975, 2 CDs (unofficial recording). She also says it was one of the first songs she ever learned.
21. J6, 305.
22. J6, 305.
23. John T. Elson, “Toward a Hidden God,” Time (April 8, 1966).
24. Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1952), 190.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 7
1. These details are extrapolated from Merton’s journal entry for that night. The moon set at 10:40 p.m.
2. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 68.
3. J6, 66–67.
4. J6, 72.
5. J6, 76.
6. For Nhat Hanh’s poems to his brother, see Thich Nhat Hanh, Tho Viet Nam (Vietnam Poems) (Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967).
7. J6, 76.
8. King delivered this sermon on April 4, 1967, in Riverside Church, New York, one year to the day before King was assassinated.
9. Thomas Merton, The Nonviolent Alternative, ed. Gordon C. Zahn (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980), 263–64.
10. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize, but the Nobel Committee decided to award no Peace Prize that year.
11. J6, 79.
12. “On This Day: 31 May, 1966: Vietnam Buddhist Burns to Death,” BBC Home, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/31/newsid_2973000/2973209.stm.
13. The photograph was taken by American photojournalist Malcolm Browne (1931–2012). In 1963 the World Press Photo Foundation named Browne’s image its World Press Photo of the Year.
14. Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Life: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Five, 1963–1965, ed. Robert E. Daggy (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 213.
15. Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson: 1966 (In Two Books): Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President (Washington, D.C.: The Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, n.d.), Book 1, 246.
16. James H. Forest, Thomas Merton’s Struggle with Peacemaking (Erie, Penn.: Pax Christi, 1983), 32.
17. Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985), 149.
18. Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire (New York: Hill and Wang, 1967), 106.
19. Nhat Hanh, Vietnam, 110.
20. J6, 76.
21. Merton, “Certain Proverbs Arise Out of Dreams,” J6, 65.
22. J6, 71.
23. J6, 77, 78.
24. J6, 78.
25. J6, 79.
26. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948), 88–89.
27. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (New York: Knopf, 1955), 69.
28. J6, 81.
29. J6, 82.
30. J6, 84.
31. J6, 84.
32. J6, 84. The quote is from chapter 1 of Walter Lowrie’s translation of Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1941).
33. In a July 3, 1965, letter to Giroux, Merton praises Karl Stern’s The Flight from Woman for its psychoanalysis of Kierkegaard’s relationship with Regine; Patrick Samway, ed., The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), 343.
34. “il n’était pas mon père: il était avec les autres”; Albert Camus, L’étranger (London: Routledge, 1988 [1942]), 155.
35. J6, 85.
36. J6, 84.
37. Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone,” Highway 61 Revisited, LP (Columbia, CS 9189, 1965), side 1, track 1.
38. J6, 83, quoting Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Highway 61 Revisited, side 1, track 5.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 8
1. Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 149.
2. The three albums are Noël (1966), Joan (1967), and Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time (1968).
3. The discographic information is from Barry Kowal, “Billboard Magazine Weekly Singles Charts from 1965,” Hits of All Decades: Rock and Roll, http://hitsofalldecades.com/chart_hits/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1941&Itemid=52.
4. Chrysogonus Waddell, Christ Is Risen, Truly Risen! CD (World Library Publications, 2007).
5. Many of the details about Father Chrysogonus are from Bradford Lee Eden, “The Sounds of Vatican II: Musical Change and Experimentation in Two US Trappist Monasteries, 1965–1984,” ValpoScholar (Valparaiso University, Fall 2014): 86–93.
6. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 129.
7. Thomas Merton, The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, ed. Patrick Hart (New York: New Directions, 1981), 315.
8. Bob Dylan, “Highway 61 Revisited,” Highway 61 Revisited, LP (Columbia, CS 9189, 1965), side 2, track 2.
9. Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, LP liner notes.
10. Thomas Merton, The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends, ed. Robert E. Daggy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), 289.
11. J6, 85.
12. J6, 85.
13. Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, ed. David D. Cooper (New York: Norton, 1997), 282–83; letters of June 1 and 9, 1966, respectively.
14. Selected Letters, 283–84.
15. Selected Letters, 285.
16. J6, 309.
17. Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), 451. Merton added “The Prospects of Nostradamus” to Cables to the Ace as section 68.
18. Galatians 6:2, Douay-Rheims (1899).
19. J6, 325.
20. Selected Letters, 286.
21. J6, 89.
22. J6, 89.
23. J6, 92.
24. J6, 97.
25. Gregory J. Ryan, “Death of a ‘Mertoniac’: An Appreciation of W. H. ‘Ping’ Ferry,” Merton Seasonal, vol. 20, no. 4 (Autumn 1995): 20.
NOTES TO DYLAN INTERLUDE NO. 2
Bob Dylan, “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” Highway 61 Revisited, LP (Columbia, CS 9189, 1965), side 2, track 3.
1. Peter Egan, a writer for Cycle World, studied photos of Dylan’s motorcycle and determined it was either a 1963 or 1964 Triumph Speed Tiger T100SR. See Peter Egan, “The Great Dylan Crash,” Cycle World, February 1998, 14. In an interview in The Telegraph 44 (Winter 1992), John Hammond Jr. believes the motorcycle was actually Rambling Jack Elliott’s AJS 500, which Elliott had stored in Dylan’s garage.
2. Bob Dylan, interview with Scott Cohen, “Don’t Ask Me Nothin’ about Nothin’, I Just Might Tell You the Truth,” Spin magazine (December 1985), 40.
3. Victor Maymudes and Jacob Maymudes, Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks (New York: St. Martin’s, 2014), 128–29.
4. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Ballad of Bob Dylan (New York: HarperCollins, 2011), 180.
5. Elliott’s AJS 500 was thirty pounds heavier than the Triumph. Even if that were the bike Dylan was riding, John Hammond affirms that the tires were flat and Dylan was taking it for repairs; John Hammond Jr., “Was Dylan Riding His Motorcycle?: John Hammond Jr. Speaks,” EDLIS: After a War, http://afterawar.yolasite.com.
6. Interview with Peter Howell, “Fifty Years Later, the Truth behind Dylan’s Motorcycle Crash,” TheStar.com (November 21, 2016), https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/11/21/fifty-years-later-the-truth-behind-dylans-motorcycle-crash.html.
7. Robbie Robertson, Testimony (New York: Crown/Archetype, 2016), 242.
8. David Dalton, “How Bob Dylan and the Holy Trinity Changed Music Forever,” Teamrock.com (December 31, 2015), http://teamrock.com/feature/2015-12-31/bob-dylan-and-the-holy-trinity-revisited.
9. Ron Rosenbaum, “Playboy Interview: Bob Dylan: A Candid Conversation with the Visionary Whose Songs Changed the Times,” Playboy (March 1978).
10. Kurt Loder, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan,” Rolling Stone 424 (June 21, 1984), http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dylan-19840621.
11. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 114.
12. Controversy surrounds the dating of Blonde on Blonde’s release. The date usually given is May 16, 1966, but nearly all media outlets at the time listed a later date, sometime around the end of June or beginning of July. See Jack Brown, “When Was Blonde on Blonde Released? Nobody Knows,” Glorious Noise (May 18, 2016), http://gloriousnoise.com/2016/when-was-blonde-on-blonde-released-nobody-knows.
13. Snippets of these unfinished songs, informally recorded in a Glasgow hotel room, may be heard on Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge—Collector’s Edition, 1965–66, 18 CDs (Columbia 888751240218, 2015), disc 18, tracks 14; 9 and 10; and 11, respectively.
14. Bob Dylan, “The Rome Interview,” July 2001, trans. Dave Flynn, originally published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (September 8, 2001), http://expectingrain.com/dok/cd/2001/romeinterview.html.
15. Bob Dylan, “3 May 1966, Press Conference, London, England,” Every Mind Polluting Word, http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1plqd/BobDylanEveryMindPol/resources/765.htm.
16. Bob Dylan, Tarantula (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 68.
17. Jack Newfield, “Mods, Rockers Fight over New Thing Called Dylan,” The Village Voice (September 2, 1965), 10.
18. These incidents are recounted in Clinton Heylin, Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments: Day by Day from 1941–1995 (New York: Schirmer, 1996), 100–103.
19. This performance was captured on video: Bob Dylan, “‘Like a Rolling Stone’ (1966) (Live in the Manchester Free Trade Hall),” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyL83KAsKc.
20. Partial or complete recordings of twenty-three of the 1966 concerts were officially released on Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings, 36 CDs (Columbia, Legacy, Sony, 889853581924, 2016).
21. Bob Dylan, “San Francisco Press Conference, December 3, 1965,” The Classic Interviews, Vol. 1, 1965–1966, CD (Isis magazine, 2005).
NOTES TO CHAPTER 9
1. Exactly where Merton saw the Post article is unknown. We know he read it on this day, and the waiting room of the Medical Arts Building seems as likely a place as any, but it’s speculative. Whether he saw the other magazines mentioned is also speculative, though those were the issues currently available. The actress on the cover of Life was Claudia Cardinale, who, coincidentally, is also pictured inside the gatefold of the original “nine-photo” issue of Blonde on Blonde. Her picture was later removed for copyright reasons.
2. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 104.
3. Jules Siegel, “Bob Dylan: Well, What Have We Here?” Saturday Evening Post (July 30, 1966), 32–39.
4. Quotes from Bob Dylan, “From a Buick 6,” Highway 61 Revisited, LP (Columbia, CS 9189, 1965), side 1, track 4.
5. Quotes from Thomas Merton, “Cancer Blues,” in In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, ed. Lynne R. Szabo (New York: New Directions, 2005), 207–9.
6. Thomas Merton, “Solitary Life: A Life without Care (8/20/1965),” On Contemplation, 4 CDs (Now You Know Media, 2014).
7. J6, 90, 108, 114, 122, 151, and others.
8. Thomas Merton, Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), 238.
9. J6, 79.
10. William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” in Complete Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), 157.
11. Their correspondence can be found in F. Douglas Scutchfield and Paul Holbrook Jr., eds., The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2014).
12. Ad Reinhardt, quoted in Dorothy C. Miller, ed., Americans 1963 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1963, exhibition catalog), 80.
13. John Yau, “Ad Reinhardt and the Via Negativa,” The Brooklyn Rail (January 16, 2014), http://www.brooklynrail.org/special/AD_REINHARDT/ad-and-spirituality/ad-reinhardt-and-the-via-negativa.
14. The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous fourteenth-century book of meditation. The Dark Night of the Soul is a sixteenth-century mystical text by Saint John of the Cross. Both are classics of the Christian via negativa.
15. Thomas Merton, The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends, ed. Robert E. Daggy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), 282.
16. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 1961), 258.
17. Scutchfield and Holbrook, Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer, 277–78.
18. Reinhardt in Miller, Americans 1963, 82.
19. David Cooper, “Victor Hammer and Thomas Merton: A Friendship Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam,” The Kentucky Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 24.
20. Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, ed. David D. Cooper (New York: Norton, 1997), 293–94.
21. J6, 116.
22. Merton, The Road to Joy, 289–90.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 10
1. Among writers who make this connection, see Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society: 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987), 154.
2. Reinhardt’s 1953 painting Black on Black No. 8 sold at auction in 1983 to a private collector for $143,000.
3. Bob Dylan, “She Belongs to Me,” Bringing It All Back Home, LP (Columbia, CS 9128, 1965), side 1, track 2.
4. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 130.
5. Bob Dylan, “I Want You,” Blonde on Blonde, 2 LPs (Columbia, C2S 841 CS 9316, 1966), side 2, track 1.
6. J6, 130.
7. Bob Dylan, “Just Like a Woman,” Blonde on Blonde, side 2, track 4.
8. J6, 129.
9. Thomas Merton, Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), 252. The song quoted is Bob Dylan, “Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35,” Blonde on Blonde, side 1, track 1.
10. Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, ed. David D. Cooper (New York: Norton, 1997), 295.
11. Thomas Merton, “The True Legendary Sound: The Poetry and Criticism of Edwin Muir,” in The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, ed. Patrick Hart (New York: New Directions, 1981), 35.
12. Selected Letters, 299.
13. Dylan, back-cover notes, Bringing It All Back Home.
14. J6, 84.
15. Sister Thérèse Lentfoehr, Words and Silence: On the Poetry of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1979), 100. Ellipsis in original.
16. Thomas Merton, Cables to the Ace (New York: New Directions, 1967), 48. Hereafter, quotations from Cables to the Ace will be referenced by section number in the text.
17. Thomas Merton, “Rafael Alberti,” in The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, 315.
18. David Cooper, Thomas Merton’s Art of Denial: The Evolution of a Radical Humanist (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989).
19. Thomas Merton, The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends, ed. Robert E. Daggy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), 308.
20. James and Tyra Arraj, directors, “Jacques Maritain’s Farewell to America: A Visit with Elisabeth [Manuel] Fourest” (Inner Growth Videos, 1996).
21. J6, 129.
22. Dylan, “Gates of Eden,” Bringing It All Back Home, LP, side 2, track 2.
23. John Howard Griffin, A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970), 103.
24. Elisabeth Manuel Fourest, quoted in Jean-Luc Barré, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven, trans. Bernard E. Doering (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), 436. Manuel mistakenly refers to the song as “Gates of Heaven.”
25. Dylan, “Gates of Eden,” Bringing It All Back Home, side 2, track 2.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 11
1. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 150.
2. J6, 154.
3. J6, 152.
4. Thomas Merton, The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers, ed. Christine M. Bochen (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993), 49.
5. Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters on Religious Experience and Social Concerns, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985), 229; Bob Dylan, “Marvin Bronstein Interview,” CBC, Montreal (February 20, 1966): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozbOTHdAUQ.
6. J6, 152.
7. J6, 152.
8. The Courage for Truth, 204.
9. J6, 153.
10. Rob Baker and Gray Henry, Merton and Sufism: The Untold Story (Louisville, Ky.: Fons Vitae, 2005), 189.
11. Thomas Merton, The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Seven, 1967–1968, ed. Patrick Hart (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 112.
12. Joan Baez, Daybreak: An Autobiography (New York: Dial, 1968), 80–81.
13. Baez, Daybreak, 77.
14. Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir (New York: Summit Books, 1987), 131.
15. Other books suggest the day was cold and threatening snow, but Weather Underground’s data for Bardstown, Louisville, and Fort Knox states that the afternoon of December 8, 1966, was in the sixties and sunny. Rain fell that evening. See “Fort Knox, KY,” Weather Underground (Thursday, December 8, 1966), https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KFTK/1966/12/8/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Bardstown+Junction&req_state=KY&req_statename=Kentucky&reqdb.zip=40165&reqdb.magic=4&reqdb.wmo=99999.
16. Baez, And a Voice to Sing With, 131.
17. J6, 167.
18. J6, 167.
19. Joan Baez interview in Mark Shaw, Beneath the Mask of Holiness (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 177.
20. J6, 167.
21. Dont Look Back was released in May 1967; it’s now available on 2 DVDs (Docurama, NVG 9824, 2007). In 2009, Dylan publicly apologized to Baez.
22. The Courage for Truth, 249.
23. The Courage for Truth, 263.
24. J6, 167.
25. J6, 78.
26. J6, 167.
27. Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (New York: New Directions, 1970), 97.
28. J6, 168.
29. J6, 234.
30. J6, 234.
31. Although she never set the poems to music, more than a decade after Merton’s death, she composed a setting for his poem about his brother’s death, “The Bells of Gethsemani.” She has not released a recording of it.
32. Thomas Merton, Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968).
33. Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground of Love, 303–4.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 12
1. Thomas Merton, The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends, ed. Robert E. Daggy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), 291.
2. Thomas Merton, Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), 117.
3. Rich Thane and Paul Bridgewater, “Bob Dylan’s Top Ten Forays into Career Suicide,” The Line of Best Fit (July 3, 2012), http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/listomania/bob-dylans-top-ten-forays-into-career-suicide-100459.
4. Mark Spitzer, “Bob Dylan’s Tarantula: An Arctic Reserve of Untapped Glimmerance Dismissed in a Ratland of Clichés,” Jack magazine, vol. 2, no. 3 (2003), http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue7/essaysmspitzer.html.
5. Thomas Merton, The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, ed. Patrick Hart (New York: New Directions, 1981), 333.
6. Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Six, 1966–1967, ed. Christine M. Bochen (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997), 83.
7. J6, 129.
8. Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, ed. David D. Cooper (New York: Norton, 1997), 295.
9. Merton, The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, 35.
10. Selected Letters, 299.
11. The Road to Joy, 309.
12. The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, 305.
13. The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, 252.
14. Timothy English, Popology: Music of the Era in the Lives of Four Icons of the 1960s (North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2013), 207.
15. Ron Pen, I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2010), 261.
16. Dave Van Ronk with Elijah Wald, The Mayor of McDougal Street: A Memoir (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2006), 46.
17. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 239.
18. Henry Miller, Plexus (New York: Grove Press, 1965), 366–67.
19. J6, 248.
20. J6, 254.
21. J6, 254.
22. J6, 271.
23. J6, 270.
24. J6, 286.
25. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948), 182.
26. Thomas Merton, The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Seven, 1967–1968, ed. Patrick Hart (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 7.
27. J7, 7.
28. Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir (New York: Summit, 1987), 63.
29. J7, 7.
30. The Road to Joy, 268.
31. J7, 128.
32. J6, 309.
33. Thomas Merton, “A Hermit’s Preferences,” Publisher’s Weekly (November 6, 1967).
34. J7, 11.
35. J7, 29.
NOTES TO DYLAN INTERLUDE NO. 3
1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “15,” A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), 30.
2. Thomas Merton, The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers, ed. Christine M. Bochen (New York: Farrar, Staus & Giroux, 1993), 204.
3. Bob Dylan, liner notes to the song “Two Soldiers” on World Gone Wrong, CD (Columbia, CK 57590, 1993).
4. Tom Pinnock, “The Band, Bob Dylan and Music from Big Pink—The Full Story,” Uncut (July 31, 2015), http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-band-bob-dylan-and-music-from-big-pink-the-full-story-69989/5.
5. Jann S. Wenner, “Dylan’s Basement Tape Should Be Released,” Rolling Stone 12 (June 22, 1968): http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dylans-basement-tape-should-be-released-19680622.
6. Douglas Heselgrave, “Bob Dylan and The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete,” Paste (November 11, 2014), https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/11/bob-dylan-and-the-band-the-basement-tapes-complete.html.
7. Roger Doughty, “Dylan Dirt,” LaCrosse Tribune (December 26, 1970), 27.
8. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 117–18.
9. Dylan, Chronicles, 97.
10. Fred Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill (New York: Vintage, 1998), 95.
11. The best overview of these complex contractual issues can be found in Goodman, Mansion on the Hill, 102–5.
12. Thomas Merton, Disputed Questions (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1960), 164.
13. Dylan, “I Shall Be Released,” The Basement Tapes Complete, disc 3, track 20.
14. Merton, Disputed Questions, 193.
15. Jim Jerome, “Exclusive or Reclusive?” People magazine (November 10, 1975), http://people.com/archive/cover-story-exclusive-or-reclusive-vol-4-no-19/.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 13
1. Thomas Merton, The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Seven, 1967–1968, ed. Patrick Hart (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 48.
2. January 26 through February 6 was one of the warmest spells on record for that period in Louisville. Though the scene is dramatized, Merton purchased these records on this day, most likely at Vine Records, which was within a block of the medical center.
3. J7, 32.
4. J7, 47.
5. Bob Dylan, “June/July 1968, John Cohen and Happy Traum Interview, Woodstock, New York,” Every Mind Polluting Word, http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1plqd/BobDylanEveryMindPol/resources/765.htm, 408.
6. Scott Marshall, Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life (Washington, D.C.: BP/WND Books, 2017), 11.
7. J7, 48.
8. J7, 48.
9. The original 1966 release featured take 2. Coltrane preferred take 1, so the album was quickly re-released with that take, which is the one Merton would have purchased.
10. Thomas Merton, A Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Three, 1952–1960, ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 225.
11. J3, 141.
12. Thomas Merton, Turning Toward the World: The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Four, 1960–1963, ed. Victor A. Kramer (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 18.
13. Thomas Merton, Seeds of Destruction (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964), 72–73.
14. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme, handwritten score, a jpg of which can be found at http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/love-supreme-manuscripts.jpg.
15. Eric Nisenson, Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest (New York: Da Capo, 1995), 212.
16. Thomas Merton, The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends, ed. Robert E. Daggy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), 111.
17. J7, 156.
18. Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1960), 5.
19. J7, 67.
20. Merton, The Road to Joy, 182.
21. J7, 78.
22. Anne Klejment and Nancy L. Roberts, American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996), 119.
23. J7, 110.
24. J7, 127.
25. J7, 82.
26. J7, 11.
27. Ferlinghetti remarked on this in Paul Wilkes and Audrey L. Glynn, Merton: A Film Biography, television documentary (New York: First Run Features, 1984; DVD, 2004).
28. Thomas Merton, Mystics and Zen Masters (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967), viii.
29. Dalai Lama, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 189.
30. Thomas Merton, The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1975), 5.
31. J7, 328.
NOTES TO THE EPILOGUE
1. Thomas Merton, “Last Lecture,” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywE6bhApcSk.
2. Robert Giroux, in Paul Wilkes, ed., Merton by Those Who Knew Him Best (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984), 25.
3. Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honoring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection (Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax, 2010), 13.
4. Johnny Cash, “A Letter from Johnny Cash,” Sing Out! no. 38 (March 10, 1964).
5. Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 171.
6. Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (A Martin Scorsese Picture), 2 DVDs (Paramount Pictures, 03105), 2005.
7. Johnny Cash, liner notes to Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline, LP (KCS 9825, 1969).
8. John Howard Griffin, Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1993), 2–3.
9. Thomas Merton, Cables to the Ace, or Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding (New York: New Directions, 1967), 26.
10. Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955), 127.
