This time, I was in some sense forced to write an entry that is way more personal for me. To say farewell to a cool guy.

https://asupala.me/2026/04/14/entry-24-a-farewell-with-a-smile/

#josefknecht #theglassbeadgame #hermannhesse #reading #book #worldbuilding

“If a famous painting changed owners, if a precious manuscript was sold at auction, if an old palace burned down, if the bearer of an aristocratic name was involved in a scandal, the readers of many thousands of feature articles at once learned the facts. What is more, on that same day or by the next day at the latest they received an additional dose of anecdotal, historical, psychological, erotic, and other stuff on the catchword of the moment.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/01/if-a-famous-painting-changed-owners-if-a-precious-manuscript-was-sold-at-auction-if-an-old-palace-burned-down-if-the-bearer-of-an-aristocratic-name-was-involved-in-a-scandal-the-readers-of-many/

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“These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/10/15/these-games-sprang-from-their-deep-need-to-close-their-eyes-and-flee-from-unsolved-problems-and-anxious-forebodings-of-doom-into-an-imaginary-world-as-innocuous-as-possible/