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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSiddhartha
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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orangecrush
Saturday
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Great book and author. I found Hesse wandering the local public library and he became a favorite
c-rational
Saturday
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My son and my soon to be daughter-in-law introduced us to Jesse Wells a while ago
Brother Buzz
Saturday
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c-rational
(3,115 posts)1. Great book and author. I found Hesse wandering the local public library and he became a favorite
author to this day, a half century plus later.
orangecrush
(27,785 posts)2. Read Hesse in high school, Siddartha and Steppenwolf
My formal exposure to Buddhism came much later.
Something in my eye.
louis-t
(24,549 posts)3. I read Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund in high school.
Similar plots but both enjoyable.
Brother Buzz
(39,399 posts)4. My son and my soon to be daughter-in-law introduced us to Jesse Wells a while ago
I really enjoy listening him in installments rather than binging. His poetry needs to be slowly digested to really appreciate his work.
orangecrush
(27,785 posts)5. Couldn't help it
I never thought I'd hear the likes of it again.
You are, of course, right.
Brother Buzz
(39,399 posts)6. He's prolific so you should to pace yourself
orangecrush
(27,785 posts)7. Kind of like Dylan
Except that to compare him to anyone who came before would be an injustice.
He is totally himself.
Brother Buzz
(39,399 posts)8. He's a LOT like Dylan, but he isn't imitating Dylan, not at all
Its obvious the two poets have traveled the same roads.
orangecrush
(27,785 posts)9. I agree
.The guitar in this song floored me.
And the lyrics, my God ...
"There's a man in a yellow cloak
He knows something I don't know"
