Steppenwolf

And, and so they f- they found that really quite, quite revealing, um, I think.

And then, uh, Damian was another one, and then Steppenwolf and-

Steppenwolf, yeah

... um, and, um, Narcissus and Goldmund.

And Siddhartha.

And there's some books you can just fly through.

But I'm trying to pick books that will be good for discussion, good to break down, whether it's every few chapters or every chapter itself, So next month I intend to pick some, Steppenwolf is a book that I really want to read.

I started it about a year ago.

I couldn't, I just, because of life stuff, couldn't get through it.

And if you'll be reading along with me in October with Pet Sematary, like I said, I have a couple of other books I'm thinking about doing.

for November and December.

I really want to finish Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse, and there's a couple of other McCarthy books I really want to do at some point, but I'm interested to hear what all of you are doing, what you're up to, and I hope you're reading Pet Sematary along with me.

Until next time, thank you all for listening and for your support, and we will talk to everyone very soon.

That's, that's a price of admission.

Mad Men Only, Steppenwolf, remember that Herman Hesse, that came, that was quite popular at the time, right? So Steppenwolf, the book for Mad Men Only, the theater, right? You enter into the theater.

and the madness is sanity your sanity is you know in the world itself is insane so if you're insane it means you're sane because the world is insane which is that's arty langs and all these guys all their arguments so this idea that creativity and genius and everything is is from this you know this boundaries pushing pushing um You can create very distorted perceptions.

And one of the things about it, though, I think fundamentally is that you may have some very, maybe once or twice, you may have an amazing experience, right? You may have a spiritual divine experience.

poet and novelist.

Does that name ring a bell to anybody? Or is it just me, my age? He wrote many kind of classic novels like Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, other ones.

He was also a pretty astute critic of society of his time.

Like Kierkegaard and Mary Oliver, he saw something essential can go missing when life is organized around efficiency and speed, productivity, this constant doing.