"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."
(Hermann Hesse)
@archilocheion Klingt wie aus den Tagen im Schweizer Exil mit Robert Jungk und Hermann Goldschmidt, bei ihren Wanderungen durch's Tessin und zu Hermann Hesse
“…towards light and wonder…” #hermannhesse #thejourneytotheeast #germanlitmonth #novnov2024
November is a month stuffed full of reading events, and I must confess that although I enjoy taking part in these, it's always rather lovely when a book counts for both of them! And I have got lucky today, as I've been revisiting a book which I don't think I've picked up since my twenties: "The Journey to the East" by Hermann Hesse (translated here from the German by Hilda…
Perfect pairing: Reading Hermann Hesse's final novel, The Glass Bead Game, while listening to Nils Frahm's first album, Streichelfisch.
#GutenMorgen, heute, #onthisday, vor 147 Jahren am 02.07.1877 wurde Hermann Hesse, Schriftsteller und Dichter, als Hermann Karl Hesse in Calw geboren.
"Wenn es viele Menschen gäbe, in denen eine so tiefe Verachtung für Landesgrenzen lebte wie in mir, dann gäbe es keine Kriege und Blockaden mehr. Es gibt nichts Gehässigeres als Grenzen, nichts Stupideres als Grenzen. Sie sind wie Kanonen, wie Generäle: ..."
(Wanderung, 1920)
#Reading because of the warm evenings I've read a lot rather than watching TV. Sitting outside.
#NorwegianWood by #Murakami p205 mentions #HermannHesse #BeneathTheWheel which is about education system says Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_Wheel
There's also lots of 1960s music references in the story.
My other #namjooning aspect is reading #HermannHesse #Steppenwolf which is actually just way too much like #rightplacewrongperson album, but I don't think #RM has read this book.
I've got halfway through now, but it's taking so long..
This is hard going, but I shall keep going. The last #HermannHesse I want to read before returning to #CarlJung #reading
Hoping to at least finish this chapter between customers at work this morning #SaturdayVibes
In Aalen einen alten Freund getroffen: #ErnstGrube in der hiesigen Zeitung zum "Tag der Befreiung", der für den Jungen im KZ sehr real war.
Während ich auf der Zugfahrt den Briefwechsel der drei Freunde #PeterWeiss, #RobertJungk und #HermannLevinGoldschmidt von ihrer #Zürich-Zeit im Exil 1938 bis 1980, im Hintergrund #HermannHesse und der #MonteVerita ... wirkt der Tag der Befreiung neben den Erinnerungen an die letzten Opfer der Nazis und ihrer dümmlichen heutigen militaristischen Verehrer
A dither. "But it's just doing a picture" Did picture. Ink bled into paper and turned everything to spiders.
I just finished #reading #HermannHesse #Demian no spoilers but that was an odd ending, in a way. Although the whole book was weird I guess.
I'm near the end of #HermannHesse #Demian and I truly laughed out loud at this #BTS #ChapterTwo #TopsOff #ItsOKItWasFortold
Awake for a while assessing #Siddhartha #HermannHesse & #Indigo #RM
"Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it." #ByTheRiver #Siddhartha #HermannHesse
Nearly at the end of this book ( as no TV last night) and I've ordered #Demian ( as if I didn't have enough unread books on the house)
#RM #KimNamjoon #BTS ( gif for scientific purposes)
Reading #HermannHesse #Siddhartha which #RM #KumNamjoon read last year. I'd love to know what he thought about this section. I've looked on twitter #JooniesLibrary and this isn't the page he shared on Instagram ( that's to come later). #reading
I decided to not finish #welcometosamdalri last night, but went to bed and started #Siddhartha #HermannHesse which is not a light hearted bedtime read - but if #Namjoon can, so can I. Then woke up this morning to a poem on Weverse from our great leader - on his own journey... #Seollal
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