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>>9438869
I did that when I was on acid at 16 and it was an almost transcendental experience. I did it again at 25 and was largely unmoved. Hope you have a good one.

>>9438869
Summary: dude, do whatever, mang.

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still waiting for the follow-up where Siddharta finds Jesus.

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I have a question that has nothing to do with OP or Siddhartha:
I read The Death of Iwan Ilyitsch and now i want to read one of Tolstoi's big ones.
Should i start wird War & Peace or Anna Karenina?

OP here. ended up getting distracted, so totally failed at the 'one sitting' part, but I did finish this evening!

A few thoughts:
- the translator/editor of the Dover edition is a total prick -- random footnote every few pages trying to sound superior and important by calling out errors in Hesse's sanskrit. very annoying
- gayest ending ever -- repressed homosexual urges send Govinda into fucking nirvana
- Kamala is hot af, everyone needs a Kama Sutra sex goddess to learn 'em some lovin'
- beautiful language, imagery, etc., and Hesse somehow captured some really profound ideas about what 'enlightenment' even means, how it's not transmittable
- I want to live in a shack by a river and work as a ferryman

Overall 8.5/10. Thanks for reading my blog.

man don't read that. you may as well read Jung. at least what I got from Demian is that Hesse loved Jung and he let it take over his artistic abilities like an octopus.

it's not gonna last bro. read something that is bigger than any philosophical system

Like Kafka

>>9439739
please gibe help. show you my titts for help :(

>>9439739
Try one of his short stories.

>>9441933
I did not ask for that kind of answer.