How to pronounce “merton” in English

I don't know how many of you ever read Thomas Merton, but there's an absolutely extraordinarily sort of chaotic life that leads to some sort of

But what makes David more special for me than Thomas Merton-- Thomas Merton had a very secular life and then he became a Catholic.

And that's also the chapter where I talk about Thomas Merton, who was a 20th-century Catholic monk slash hermit and is an example of someone who

I don't think that a seer, or whatever you want to call David today, has to be a person-- I mean, I think the model is Thomas Merton.