Word: monasticism
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Here Tom lives a monastic life, baking his own bread from sprouted wheat kernels, and cultivating vegetables alongside the marijuana. His daily needs are basic and so, too, is his plumbing-an outhouse that curiously has room for five. His shower is little more than a wooden platform, pipe, and...
In November 1912, Kafka reports that he has half-completed "an exceptionally repulsive story." It is "The Metamorphosis," and he explains to Felice that it springs from "the same heart in which you dwell." Because he is wedded to writing, he warns that his wife would necessarily lead "a monastic...
The monastic fate of Claverly, the Union dorms and the Yard halls near Cambridge streets (i.e. Wigglesworth) also seems all but sealed. Security considerations prevent Radcliffe freshmen from living in these dorms, Young maintains. He explained that buildings located away from the streets are historically more secure and less susceptible...
He left San Francisco with an exhilaration that approached ecstasy -"with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my way after years of waiting and wondering and fooling around." Trappist Monk Thomas Merton, the best-known Christian mystic of this century, had been given...
The time is some uncertain date in the 1990s, and the sign of the cross has become an anachronism. A Third and Fourth Vatican Council have come and gone. The Vatican, now thoroughly embroiled in a highly ecumenical superchurch, dutifully processes assignments through World Ecumen Council headquarters in Amsterdam. Priests...