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...selecting his title, Thomas Merton has pointed out the inadequacy of the poems in this latest collection. The quote on the frontispiece from Leon Bloy reads "When those who love God try to talk about him, their words are blind lions looking for springs in the desert." Merton's lines are fervent and usually very expressive but, for the most part, fall short in the description of the Divine; the title, "Tears of the Blind Lions," suggests that the poet is lamenting his own failure to express his love for God in verse...
...Loire valley, hoped to be a great painter some day. But after World War I, in which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...
...hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...
Just published is a collection of Bloy's writings (Pilgrim of the Absolute, Pantheon, $3.50), edited by Raïssa Maritain, with an introduction by her husband, now France's Ambassador to the Vatican. The loving and loathing in these fragments might well prove a shock treatment for some torpid Christians. Excerpts...