NP but Hesse

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Me too. Give me those "more pleasing and joyful" tones anytime.

And as to Hesse, he wasn't to blame when dudes like Kurt Mondaugen were
"ready to accept Hitler on the basis of Demian-metaphysics". (GR, 403)
Nazism is arguably not inherent in self-seeking mysticism.


On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Ian Livingston wrote:

> 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
>