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James K. Baxter Complete Prose Volume 1

Devotional Reading

Devotional Reading

Sir: Having heard from the Editor of one of our national dailies that a large proportion of newspaper correspondence comes from the mental hospitals I tremble each time I post another letter to the Listener. Yet I must point out an unfortunate error which your correspondent Joan F. Proctor has made in her zealous letter attacking my review of a new translation of that great classic of devotional literature, The Cloud of Unknowing. I applaud her zeal. But the paragraph beginning ‘There is another spiritual dodge to try if you wish . . .’ was written not by myself but by the translator, and at a further remove by the unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing. So your correspondent’s anxiety about my spiritual state, on this score at least, can now be transferred to its proper target, the unknown mystic or his translator.

1961 (259)