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Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Charles Darneal, The Courier-Journal 12/3/1956 (4th and Walnut, Louisville)

“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness…. “

– Thomas Merton, 1958, Conjectures of Guilty Bystander

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