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A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
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A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
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List price R349
Loot Price R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
You Save R26 (7%)
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While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across
Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, "A Time of Gifts" and
"Between the Woods and the Water," During World War II, he fought
with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in "A
Time to Keep Silence," Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward
journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europe's oldest
and most venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St.
Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes,
famous for its revival of Gregorian chant; and at the deeply
ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where monks take a
vow of silence. Finally, he visits the rock monasteries of
Cappadocia, hewn from the stony spires of a moonlike landscape,
where he seeks some trace of the life of the earliest Christian
anchorites.
More than a history or travel journal, however, this beautiful
short book is a meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude
for modern life. Leigh Fermor writes, "In the seclusion of a
cell--an existence whose quietness is only varied by the silent
meals, the solemnity of ritual, and long solitary walks in the
woods--the troubled waters of the mind grow still and clear, and
much that is hidden away and all that clouds it floats to the
surface and can be skimmed away; and after a time one reaches a
state of peace that is unthought of in the ordinary world."
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