Word: justness
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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,"
Actually, Fields was just doing what came naturally. He was eternally suspicious, intensely competitive and even at the peak of his career morbidly fearful of poverty. To avoid sudden bankruptcy, he developed the habit of starting small bank accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of...
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.
"You men! You think you're so smart. I'd just like to see you try to take care of a house and kids."
"I feel a little ashamed to carry on like this. Something just came over me. I will be myself again tomorrow."