Wow 😮! Hesse didn't hold back there, did he? But, I wouldn't have it any other way--I’ve always tended to gravitate to artists that don't hold back...Bergman, Gance, Haneke, early Scorsese, Lars Von Trier, Kubrick--just to name a few masters of the art of Film. Authors? My favorites have always been the strange “holy” quadrumvirate of Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, John Irving, and Norman Mailer--this quartet of masters of American literature 📚 have never been known for their practice of “holding back,” either. The quote from Hesse certainly stings--but I feel that there is a reason for it. --todd gold (Shreveport, Louisiana)
There was a reason he was so popular among so many during in "the 60s"--his respect for all living things and the responsibility of humanity to itself were mirrors of a collective soul that flourished in that brief period of time.
I am a bird in a storm. The sense of ongoing angst without relief, wind roaring and rain swirling… no escape. Are we poor apes headed for heaven or hell or just birds eternally in a storm…
I remember as a young man doing a sort of pilgrimage to calw Germany in the Black Forest to the birthplace of Hesse. His influence has remained with me all my life..especially “magister ludi”. 🎩
Wow 😮! Hesse didn't hold back there, did he? But, I wouldn't have it any other way--I’ve always tended to gravitate to artists that don't hold back...Bergman, Gance, Haneke, early Scorsese, Lars Von Trier, Kubrick--just to name a few masters of the art of Film. Authors? My favorites have always been the strange “holy” quadrumvirate of Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, John Irving, and Norman Mailer--this quartet of masters of American literature 📚 have never been known for their practice of “holding back,” either. The quote from Hesse certainly stings--but I feel that there is a reason for it. --todd gold (Shreveport, Louisiana)
There was a reason he was so popular among so many during in "the 60s"--his respect for all living things and the responsibility of humanity to itself were mirrors of a collective soul that flourished in that brief period of time.
I am a bird in a storm. The sense of ongoing angst without relief, wind roaring and rain swirling… no escape. Are we poor apes headed for heaven or hell or just birds eternally in a storm…
I remember as a young man doing a sort of pilgrimage to calw Germany in the Black Forest to the birthplace of Hesse. His influence has remained with me all my life..especially “magister ludi”. 🎩
That hurts