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Aug 14, 2018TheodoreHarmon rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The story of a man who intellectualized himself into being a pompous recluse- Then tore down those classist/sophisticate protections that were imprisoning him. And, perhaps it's good to have the humility to believe your icons would laugh at you. Interestingly, there's also comments (written before You-Know-Who really had massive sway) about the German populace wanting to get right back into a war; how they were ignoring 'the millions in the ground' in coming to this feeling. He also alludes to his actual troubles during WW I when he made an inadvertent comment and got (figuratively) ripped apart by the militarists. Hesse, in life, finally admitted he 'drank the Kool-Aid;' writing for consumption and not truth.