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| Alla Nazimova performs the dance of the seven veils in Charles Bryant’s Beardsley-inspired Salomé (1923) |
This month marks fifty years since the death of Thomas Merton who has been described as the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. This poem - one of four written in French - appears to bring the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids into the twentieth century in more ways than one.
