On Merton

 I watched an old black and white film about Thomas Merton  - made presumably shortly after his death - which includes a filmed extract from his final speech in December 1968 which I did not even know existed. Some shots are then shown of the hotel room (apparently owned by the Red Cross) where he died so tragically from electrocution by a faulty fan. A message below (on youtube of course) mentions a book written in 2015 advancing the conspiracy theory that he was actually murdered (there was no post-mortem). I googled a review in the Irish Times dated from 2018 which makes light of this claim but also, strangely. makes light of Thomas Merton himself in ways that seemed to me just as conspiratorial. All that aside, the reviewer quotes Merton at one point:

"The created world is itself an epiphany of divine wisdom and love."