Sketches for a Manuscript
Dedicated to Ann Frank
whose spirit,
as it appeared to him in her diary,
was such an
inspiration,
and also to young Wayne who, in his youth,
was
the author of these sketches. They have been edited by an older
Wayne
thirty years later.
Sketches for a Manuscript
- Editor's Introduction:
- Wayne Paquette at fifty two, editing fragments of his own life from
thirty years earlier.
Young Wayne trying to make sense of his own life,
and of life itself, at twenty two.
- Sketch One: Dedication.
- The inspiration of
Anne Frank; her courage and spirit, in spite of the tragedy of her
situation.
- Sketch Two: Going steady.
- Recollections
about his high school sweatheart, and "going steady," just on the eve of
his joining a monastery.
- Sketch Three: The "calling."
- An attempt to
describe what a "vocation to the priesthood" meant to him, and what
the monastary experience was like; both the illuminations and
disillusionments.
- Sketch Four: The church.
- The Church. The
real church.
- Sketch Five: Father confessor.
- A session with
Father Confessor.
- Sketch Six: A monk in Mahattan.
- A young monk on a
half day off, in Manhattan.
- Sketch Seven: Manhattan II
- A young monk
in Manhattan, II.
- Sketch Eight: Revolutions.
- Things are changing. The old ways don't make sense.
- Sketch Nine: Christianity
- Looking for authentic christianity.
- Sketch Ten: The "real" world.
- Out of the
monastery and back to the "real" world.
- Sketch Eleven: Over thirty.
- A message
for the older generation.
- Sketch Twelve: Education.
- Thoughts
on education.
- Sketch Thirteen: God.
- On
God and the idol it has become.
- Sketch Fourteen: New generations.
- Today's
younger generation, i.e. 1966.
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