steppenwolf...

hesse! what can the doc type about the man? 'demian' is such a book of the mind...and the doc really enjoyed it...

now he's 40 pages into this one and truly expects to be thoroughly entralled again by the man's work...

another one of those nice finds from a library book sale last year...the doc finally put the book in his hands last nite and found the preface gripping...

should be good, fellow readers...something about hesse that the doc finds engrossing...'siddhartha' and 'under the wheel' were quality, especially 'siddhartha'...but 'demian' was one of those books that really peeled the onion...

excited to see the direction 'steppenwolf' heads off into...written when he was 50 years old, we're already off to a fine start...

does the good doctor always refer to himself in the third person?

steppenwolf= the doc

ROAR!

W00t! hesse=best


"..But everyman is more than just himself; he also represents the unique and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena interesect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wonderous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross." -Hermann Hesse (from the Preface to Demian)

It's an intersting book. The first time I read it, when I was younger, I didn't see that it was 2 narratives that are related; the conventional beginning, when Haller has a noticeable limp, and the unconventional progression, where Haller enjoys dancing.

Is the magic theatre a metaphor?