Rick Garnett's Oversight

Alas, in his post below, on the essay about Jacques Maritain, Rick failed to quote the most important paragraph of the essay--the final paragraph.  Here it is:

Maritain returned for a last visit to the United States in 1966 to say farewell to old friends and to visit the grave of his sister-in-law Vera buried in Princeton. At the same time he went to see others, one of whom was the poet and monk Thomas Merton. The latter regaled him with recordings of Bob Dylan, "whom he [Merton] considers a great poet, a modern Villon. What a strange scene it is," writes the friend accompanying Maritain, "listening in the monastery of Gethsemani to the hard and expressive voice of a young rebel poet. Jacques likes 'The Gates of Heaven' especially." (This is probably a mistaken reference to "Gates of Eden.") It is with such an appealing image, which seems to unite so many of the seemingly clashing facets of Maritain's remarkable personality, that we can best grasp the secret of his astonishing career.
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