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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-070-#02
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1967-09-25 (#01), TALS Biram to Merton, 'this is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults & see'
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- 1967 September 25 (Creation)
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3 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.
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(1922-)
Biographical history
John Biram was originally from England and moved to the United States around 1960. A couple of years later, he would quit his job as a scientist and focus on writing. He wrote poems and includes one called "A Cocktail Party" with this letter to Merton. He also writes about the negative effects of technology in a book called «Teknosis», which would be published until 11 years after this correspondence (1978).
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First lines: "this is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults and see through to the"... Contents index: career background as a scientist turned poet - published in the «New York Times» and «Negro Digest» / writing a book called «Teknosis» "a disease resulting from life in technological society" / Fr. Stanley Jaki / value of contemplation / question of a non-Catholic monasticism for people like Biram.
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Biram, John