Steppenwolf

A great book, and a great edition of it. One of the interpretations highlights that this is a highly based of Hesse's own thinking and experiences, like dancing. In every person there is a steppenwolf, for more it is more hairy than others. I recognized a LOT of myself in Harry. I could not put those things anything remotely like Hesse did, and therefore I am very grateful to have read it.

Lately I have read a lot of Camus as well. The most important philosophical question for Camus was This: Does life have any meaning and if not, as it appears to be the case, then why not kill oneself. Harry has pretty much the same experience. The endings that Hesse Produces are often dreamy deliriums and this certainly was one of those. At the end Harry liberated Hermione. She too, wanted different things from life that she did end up developing herself and therefore was not happy. She kind of knew that Harry loves her enough to kill her for that.

“Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”