NP but Hesse

[Ian Livingston]

Love Schiller's Ode to Joy, and Beethoven's even more.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> An old friend of mine sent me many printed-out pages re Herman Hesse
> mostly from 'German Missions
> in the US' concerning The Legacy of Hermann Hesse 50 Years later. (Hesse
> died Aug 9. 1962)
> He is much more read---and more importantly--reread in Hesse's work than
> I.
>
> Picture that leads is the cover of the Aug 6,2012 Der Spiegel Magazine
> which is all Hesse, perhaps in a wide-awake hat
> (but looks not wide-enough), giving the finger under the title "Der
> Storenfried: Sinnsucher, Dichter, Anarchist--- The Troublemaker:
> seeker of meaning, poet, and anarchist."
>
> All of the above is just me procrastinating and setting up the line I
> wanted to post. Which is the title of an essay Hesse
> published in 1914, "O Freunde, nicht diese Tone" [w umlaut]---"Oh Friends,
> not these tones"..
>
> which is wonderful (to me) to learn of as we've explored those
> geopolitical tones in Against the Day.
>
> (He was vociferously lambasted publicly whch led to shying away from the
> public eye later in life, it says)
>
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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