1/19 These pages were written with the encouragement of Dom Hildebrand Maple, O.S.B., and were sent to him later at his own request._ "... He told me a great many things that surprised me. For instance, he seemed to know all about certain ideas that I had had, before I told him of them, and said that I was not responsible, and he picked out one or two other things that I had said, and told me that these were much more serious.... He did not say a great deal then, but he asked if I would care to talk to him afterwards. |