FERMOR, Patrick Leigh. A Time to Keep Silence. London: John Murray. 1957.
As Artemis Cooper comments in Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (London: 2012), 'Almost none of his subsequent writings show anything like the same level of introspection, and certain passages seem to yearn for a deeper spiritual experience, like a thirsty man in the desert gazing at at what might be an oasis or a mirage. For the monks the oasis was very real but for Paddy, in spite of his yearnings, it remained a mirage. Yet the weeks he spent in these French monasteries had made a profound impression' (p. 235).
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