Thomas Merton and the Monsters (the Mugwumps)

Title: Thomas Merton and the Monsters (the Mugwumps)
Description: Two humorous selections from Thomas Merton's final address as novice master before moving full-time to his hermitage.
Date: August 20, 1965 See all items with this value
Language: English See all items with this value
Rights: Recordings © Copyright of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University
Source: Thomas Merton Audio Recordings, Tape #154, Track #3 (excerpts, 1:12-2:33 and 3:45-4:45); The recording was transferred from reel-to-reel audio tape to digital format. Most recordings were first transferred to compact disk and then ripped to digital. NOTE: transcripts were generated in 2025-2026 using the Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Some known errors in transcription were corrected by archivists; however, there are still mistakes, especially with specialized monastic names and terms, foreign languages, and recording sections with multiple people speaking at once or off-microphone. All text needs to be screened by a human and cleared with the Merton Legacy Trust before publication.
Subject: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. See all items with this value