ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI TRAPWST KENTUCKY 40073

Cct. 18,1966

Dear Richard Tobin:

Shanks for your letter. I don't quite Lnow how to go about the
uronosition. When Thich Nhat flanh was here I had something very
definite to go on. But your suggestion is extremely general.also
I can't comment on specific news events as I cannot follow the day by da
news.

One idea I had the other day—— I already suggested it to
~rpers but they may not want it: there is a wonderful snort
'ece of Camus, a soeecn of the klague (personified) to his
subjects" (Victims). me used it in a wlay about the Plague (not the
novel). It runs about lOOfi words. I t lught of translating it and
just adding a short commentary of my own, or rather refacing it with
such a COunentary, tying it in witn our current situation.

Or perhaps I could write a concise anoreciation of the vamusian
position (”Ieither victim nor executioner"; which Nhat Hanh and I
share. It is the difficult middle way whicn seems so inefficient to
oragmatist .

fidanks for your suggestion, in any case.

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Cordially,

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