Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hesse is plainly smiling at all ivory-tower intellectuals, all tight little groups that seek salvation by separateness. Joseph Knecht apparently learned his lesson just in time. "We're all in this together...
Where Protagonist Joseph Knecht fits into this is not as clear as it might be. He comes & goes between long essays on music, philosophy, theology, the Game and the Order. He was an orphan, was chosen for one of the elite schools, joined the Order, spent two years in China trying to incorporate Chinese thought into the Game, was sent on a sort of exchange scholarship to a Benedictine monastery, and at 37 became the youngest Magister Ludi in the history of the Order. After reaching the greatest height of the Order, he left it, and tried to return...
...Joseph might conceivably have said. But sardonic Author Hesse, casting himself as the historian of the future, is not interested in making the history of the present as plain as all that. He leaves the reader to guess just what did happen to Joseph...
Reformer. In Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph George Buca admitted making off with a slot machine containing $18.65, insisted that he took it only because the machine was illegal...
Power of the Word. In Los Angeles, Joseph Weissman was booked for assaulting his wife with a deadly weapon: a prayer book...