The Wisdom of the Desert Penguin Random House Leary on Drugs compiles every

Leary on Drugs compiles every interesting thing he ever said about the subject

This exhaustive critical history and biography is lavishly illustrated with 200 color and black-and-white photos

all the way through to comic strips and candid photographs

lyrical and melancholy

The Wisdom of the Desert Penguin Random House Leary on Drugs compiles everyThe Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Mertons favorites among his own books surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tone of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East. The hermits