yes yes joe..herman hesse...my all time favourite writer... and with a part estonian heritage...brilliant...love him...and have you read thomas merton? i too often see "the trial" played out in real life had a beautiful golden moment last night at 6:45pm... was it nirvana ?...a few minutes of absolute bliss. .i was in the process of doing my meditation "cosmic"drawing.... and.... yes yes yes... this will help me through the next week pity it's such a rare event maybe just maybe..it was listening to a buddhist chant that tipped me into that space merle
Merle, et al., IN THE PENAL COLONY was too distressing enough for me. ;-) But what a writer. Remarkable. METAMORPHOSIS I also don't touch, after a few readings separated by decades. ;-) TNX! I must say, thinking about rather special authors, that I really love Hesse's THE GLASS BEAD GAME (MAGISTER LUDI). Its strange but all-too-recognizable "world" echoes and is watered by leakages from my connection with formal Zen practice and its organizational structures (through history, and today); and surely my Catholicism; and, my early career in professional academic western Philosophy. Others will like it well enough for the story. ;-} My futon is directly on the floor, for your reason quoted below. --Joe > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > try kafka's "the trial"...that'll have you "looking under your bed at night" > ...and listening with both ears at the door > > Â and jean genet.." the balcony" [snip]
