Routinely sneaked out to consume cold crisp beer
Thomas Merton was famously known as a deeply disciplined, highly isolated thinker, but he secretly despised the boring diet. He frequently sneaked away from his strict community entirely just to listen to loud jazz records and drink large quantities of cold beer with his friends, completely destroying the public stereotype of the constantly suffering ascetic.

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