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A Time to Keep Silenceby Patrick Leigh FermorMay 16, 2012 A Time to Keep Silence is travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor’s beautifully written account of visits to a number of European monasteries (Benedictine and Cistercian) and later to the ruins of an even older Turkish desert community in his efforts to understand the continuing appeal of the monastic way of life. An outsider, Fermor makes it clear he’s a man of the world whose direct intention is not to seek a believer’s purification of soul. Instead, he wants to discover why an initially unattractive way of life has continued through the centuries to exert its appeal upon men, men of a sort he discovers to be not only psychologically balanced, but largely happy. | 
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Dr. David Howell currently holds the Pieper Family Endowed Chair for Servant-Leadership. He is also an associate professor in the General Studies Department. He teaches courses in literature, technical communication, and research methods. He received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and an individual interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Washington State University. Howell’s writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Seven Hundred Kisses and Pillow: Exploring the Heart of Eros, and he published a poetry chapbook titled In Sixteen Hands of Shadow.
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