A short, funny bit of Thomas Merton speaking at the Abbey before moving to his hermitage. Always good to hear his voice.
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@cherylmburton74862 жыл бұрын
Don't know what mug lumps are. Sounds like an expression for something native to Kentucky woods. Although since he mentions the Scotland Loch Ness Monster legend, it must have been something sludgelike in the woods around his hermitage. I have not read anything of him describing the woods around him that way. Only beautiful praise of nature surrounding him is what I have read?
@chrisw4512 жыл бұрын
Yeah just a made up fantasy creature. Yes the woods around him are beautiful. I live a out an hour away and have visited them many times.
@cherylmburton55772 жыл бұрын
Listening to it again, It sounds more like mud lumps.
@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods2 жыл бұрын
"Mugwump" is an Algonquin word, and refers to a lake monster.
@cherylmburton55772 жыл бұрын
@@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods Thanks for answering! Now it makes sense. I know he described a small body of water where he would walk in the Forest there. Any Forest like that with no electric lights outside at night, can cause ones thoughts to conjure up those images. Probably the moonlight on the water would enhance the Idea.
@cherylmburton74862 жыл бұрын
Possibly it is a false voice, sounding like Merton's?
@chrisw4512 жыл бұрын
Nope that is him joking around.
@cherylmburton55772 жыл бұрын
The second half was at first more believable as joking around, but now I see the odd humor in the first part also. Those kind of tales were popular in the 1960s, like the Science Fiction movie "The Day of the Triffids" when they kept multiplying, growing, to incredible heights, threatening to consume the whole earth, until they discovered that SeaWater could kill them!
@cherylmburton55772 жыл бұрын
We only had a black and white TV when I was a child, so I remember those Triffids as looking like an arsenal of black missiles, standing tall, straight up in the air.
@chrisw4512 жыл бұрын
@@cherylmburton5577Day of the Triffids is one of my favorites, both the book and the movie. Freaked me out as a kid.
@cherylmburton55772 жыл бұрын
@@chrisw451 I had nightmares over those types of movies, especially the "Blob", also the monster movies.