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Originally Posted by lucyrulesok

2. I did read the glass bead game, it's probably my favourite Hesse!! I would really urge you to try again with it. It's a little sludgy at times but it all comes together beautifully in the last 10% or so. You must also read his 'lives' at the end - vvv. important. The final pages of the story are so poignant too i will never forget the precise moments of reading them down to the quality of light in my room, how i was feeling everything. that is quite schmaltzy i guess but it had a reall effect on me.

damn, that was convincing. i will look it up. it's buried in one of those boxes i haven't opened in ages, a spanish translation, probably all yellow now.

once i got into an argument with an ex-friend who kept saying hesse was for teenagers. maybe, but if you never went through it then it's not too late. the fucker was so miserable i gifted him a steppenwolf-- he was just like steppenwolf with his razor blade, all serious and boohoo and getting old and on prozac. but he thought he was above all that, in his overly intellectual posture. god damn margaritas ante porcos. no magic theatre for him.